Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring in the shape of a fantastic pavilion. Below five drops, with lambrequins (decorative drapery) above in the intervals. In the central part a kind of vertical knot is connecting a base and the "roof." In the intervals are drops and four small disks. Bevelled corners.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-824
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and gray watercolor on light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.2 × 9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)