Design for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1830
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal and diamonds. With variations like 1938-88-756. The engraved band with a zig-zag pattern with a stroke (above) and a circle (below) in the angles. In the central band, the diamonds are standing near together. The motifs in the cresting border are slightly varied. Twenty-four tines.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1938-88-760
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 ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 14.5 × 21 cm (5 11/16 × 8 1/4 in.)