Design for a Necklace
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1765
name: label: Designer
content: Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a necklace; irregular sheet. At left, a design for a necklace, the chain made up of scrolling leaves and blooming flowers. From a large flower at upper left is a knotted ribbon, from which hangs a cross made up of round gems bordered by leaves with a blossom in the center. At lower right, possible alternative suggestion for the pendant or a brooch design made up of a branch with blooming flowers. Similar to 1938-88-6212, with some sketches of minor additions.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Siena, 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: 1938-88-881
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, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 13.1 × 19.5 cm (5 3/16 × 7 11/16 in.)