Design for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal and diamonds. Thirty-five tines. The low cresting is divided in three rows. Below, drapery festoons in engraving. In the middle, a chain of diamonds; cresting border with alternating: a flower stem with a diamond as blossom and two leaves and a stem stacked with a small diamond below and a large diamond above, connected by curves.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1938-88-756
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 ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16 × 22.9 cm (6 5/16 in. × 9 in.)