Design for a Brooch
date: label: Date
content: late 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for a brooch. Two bows—one larger and one smaller, stacked upon one another. Both decorated with patterned bands of stones, S-curves, rhomboids, X’s, and flowers. At center is a disk composed of concentric bands of scalloped stone petals with a central stone.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, South Italy, 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: 1938-88-864
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 black ink, brush and gray wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 17 x 24.1 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)