Design for a Necklace
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770–80
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a necklace with a horizontal band at top and an attached curving band below. The bands made of interlaced chain consisting of a scroll of ribbons and a garland with rosettes of leaves at the joining of the two parts; additional rosettes evenly spaced throughout. Hanging from the center of the horizontal band's largest rosette is a knotted ribbon that holds a drop. Hanging from the center of the curving band's central rosette is a teardrop-shaped shell, composed of ribbons with diamonds or pearls.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, 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: 1938-88-893
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 sepia ink, brush and gray watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.6 × 28.7 cm (7 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.)