Design for a Diadem
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a diadem (small crown or tiara). Above a band are two bigger and, outside, two smaller volutes, with the scrolls bending upwards; those are connected by chains with 5 and 3 round diamonds respectively. On the cusps, ovoid diamonds on feet. In the spherical triangles of the intervals, a big round diamond surrounded by smaller ones. Upon the band and the volutes are rows of diamonds.
place: label: made in
content: possibly Siena, 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: 1938-88-876
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 ink, brush and sepia wash on light brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10 × 18.8 cm (3 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)