Four Designs for Brooches in the "Byzantine" Style
date: label: Date
content: 1860–65
name: label: Attributed to
content: Carlo Ansorge, German, active Rome, 1800–89
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Bottom drawing in image. Four disks from left to right: 1st disk: Blue with gold edge; Red petal shaped pattern stemming from inner green circle; Inner circle had a four pedaled flower with red center; surrounding inner circle is and alternating diamond and circle pattern.
label: Description
content: 3rd disk: Green with gold edge; six pedaled flower with blue and gold center within a red and gold trim circle; center surrounded by smaller red disks with four petal flowers alternating with two blue dots.
label: Description
content: 4th disk: Red disk with blue edge; six pointed star with red circular center with a blue edged circle; center surrounded by alternating patterns of four pedaled flowers with blue centers and green diamonds.
label: Description
content: 2nd disk: Blue with red edge; red diamond with blue center within green disk
place: label: made in
content: Rome, 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: 1938-88-6355
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 brown ink, brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper
label: Dimensions
content: 9.8 x 30.5 cm (3 7/8 in. x 12 in.)