Design for Six Brooches
date: label: Date
content: 1739
name: label: Designer
content: Girolamo Venturi
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Above, in center a large brooch, consisting of two parts connected by two enameled knots; above, with alternative suggestions, a rinceau of volutes and stems with leaves; below, in center, a pedestal with a large green and small white diamond above, bands and volutes composed of white diamonds and golden curves on the side. Intermixed are seven round diamonds and large green oval ones. Nine green drops. Below are five brooches of the “bunch type,” the first with three green drops, the second and fourth with a white drop, the third with three red and two white drops, and the fifth with two white drops.
place: label: made in
content: Siena, 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: 1938-88-7410
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Black crayon, pen and dark ink, brush and watercolor, gold on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.4 x 26.8 cm (7 5/8 x 10 9/16 in.)