Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1790
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. The ring and three palmettes on top, in the center, and below are of gold. They are connected by chains of disks or pearls, framing festoons below the upper and the central palmette and straight frames at the outsides. Hanging are in the two compartments from a base with on top a palmette composed of disks and leaves five chains with four disks each. Bevelled corners.
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: 1938-88-794
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 watercolor, silver on light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.9 × 7.8 cm (5 1/16 × 3 1/16 in.)