Design for a Badge of the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1710–80
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a badge of the order of St. Stephen. An eight-pointed cross is enamelled in red, with bordering white stripes, in the angles four lilies. The uppermost points support a royal crown, hanging from a support, consisting of three parts. Above, a knot with two stems, each with a blossom, a bead and leaves, and a central blossom. Below the interlaced ends of the ribbon a smaller knot with a similar blossom in the center, one end of which is suspended; below is a kind of a ring from which two entwined ribbons are springing, ending at the globe of the crown. Bevelled corners.
place: label: made in
content: probably Tuscany, 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: 1938-88-917
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, red watercolor on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17.5 × 8.1 cm (6 7/8 × 3 3/16 in.)