Design for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a hair comb. An oblong with a trellis in lozenge shape, the crossing points being alternatively shaped as circles with round diamonds as squares with correspondent diamonds. The latter are the center of a rosette, formed by leaves. Nine tines, the upper parts of which are sketched. Verso: part of an architectural design of which only the windows of the uppermost story were executed.
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: 1938-88-772
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 sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.8 × 17.7 cm (4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)