Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. The ring has two slopes. On the larger, a disk is fastened, intended to be enameled like the drop and the drapery. The disk and the drop are framed by a row of beads. Both are connected by a floral motif and a drapery festoon. The disk above has a palmette at top, a green diamond drop, framed by two laurel branches fastened below by a ring. Chains with beads are hanging from the ends of the drapery to the ends of the branches.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, 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: 1938-88-901
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, green, yellow watercolor on light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12 × 5.8 cm (4 3/4 × 2 5/16 in.)