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, silver and diamonds. In the cresting border, blossoms composed of a central red diamond framed by smaller white ones and connected with a leaf branch in the Gothic manner, and other floral motifs as grapes. Below, a silver and an engraved gold band. Twenty-five tines.
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: 1938-88-758
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, red watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 16.1 × 22.8 cm (6 5/16 in. × 9 in.)