Design for Cresting for a Comb
date: label: Date
content: 1810–20
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. Design for cresting of a comb intended to be executed in gilded metal and diamonds. Curved frame. Branches form three compartments, in the center of each are circular blue gems with circular frames. Seven comb tines sketched in pen and ink below the crest.
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: 1938-88-684
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 brown ink, brush and magenta, blue-green, yellow-brown wash on white laid paper, laid down
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 × 17.8 cm (4 7/8 in. × 7 in.)