Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. The scheme is similar to 1938-88-818, but the shape of the palmette is stressed by omitting the fourth band. Green diamonds at the center of the disk, rosette and drop. Slightly bevelled corners at upper right and lower left.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, 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: 1938-88-802
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 watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 8.2 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/4 in.)