Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
name: label: Designer
content: Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. A disk above, below three hanging blossoms composed of a square and vertically oblong diamonds in a calyx of leaves, with a circular frame composed of the leaves of six stems springing from the calyx. In the middle, a branch with two lateral symmetrically arranged stems and central blossom.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Siena, Italy
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-898
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 paper
label: Dimensions
content: 8.2 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.)