Designs for Two Cross Pendants
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two jewelry designs for cross pendants. At left a cross with hexagonal arms. On the interior of the cross, images of the instruments of the Passion: on top the crown of thorns, at left three nails, at right three dies, at bottom pincers and hammer. On top a vine with a larger one above, in the middle of the outer sides of the other arms a grenade. At right, a plain cross, framed by moldings; at the outsides of the arms a ball; above a ring. Construction lines in graphite. Stabbed for copying.
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: 1938-88-909
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 wash, graphite on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.1 × 23.7 cm (5 15/16 × 9 5/16 in.)