Design for an Earring
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Jewelry design for an earring. A disk above and three hanging drops below in the form of flowers, each framed by leaves, the drop at lower center the largest and in the shape of a palmette. Connecting the disk and drops is a knotted ribbon with two horizontal downward-curved stems, each with two leaves and a bud, from which hang the two surrounding drops at left and right.
place: label: made in
content: probably Naples, 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: 1938-88-895
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 watercolor on light green paper
label: Dimensions
content: 9.5 × 7.7 cm (3 3/4 × 3 1/16 in.)