Designs for Twelve Earrings
date: label: Date
content: 1865–70
name: label: Designer
content: Salvatori, Italian, active 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two rows of six earrings each. Above, the first third and sixth have escutcheons; the fourth two rams’ heads, the fifth ram’s head. Below, the first with a tablet inscribed: L V X; the second a snake with a hanging vase and a ram’s head below, the third has three drops, with central drop in shape of sun. The fifth has, above, a tablet, semicircle cresting and hanging vase, the sixth has an escutcheon and a hanging vase.
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: 1938-88-6311
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 16.5 x 24.8 cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.)