Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: late 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. Above, a round disk filled with circular gemstones; below, three pear-shaped drops; in the center, three flower blossoms surrounded by ribbon, the bands of which form the volutes of a palmette with rounded gems in between. Beveled corners.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, 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: 1938-88-853
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: 12 × 9.8 cm (4 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)