Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry designs for a hair comb, earring, and a necklace, all with the same motifs. The comb at upper center with seventeen tines; three rows of beads connecting alternatively one of three blossoms composed of round diamonds with a frame of eight smaller ones around, and one of two lozenges, formed by eight round diamonds with a central one. The earring below; the front of a double-sloped ring supports a blossom from which two chains are hanging, supporting in the center a lozenge, and below the drop, formed by three diamonds, with a frame like the blossom. The curving necklace encloses both the earring and comb; necklace consists of three chains of heads with, alternating, seven blossoms and six lozenges.
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: 1938-88-755
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, olive watercolor on light brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19 × 31 cm (7 1/2 × 12 3/16 in.)