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. Seventeen tines. The cresting border consists of hearts with, on top, a big diamond between two small pearls, inside a lozenge with four pearls instead of the angles. The central row contains two chains of pearls and eight bigger pearls below as a junction to the engraved band.
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: 1938-88-757
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: 16 × 23.1 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/8 in.)