Venus and Cupids
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A: the brooch, with an enamel painting showing a woman with a putto in a gold frame with nine pendants of five lengths at the bottom. The frame of the blocks is covered with blocks, balls, arches and three-lobed forms on the pendants of hearts and flowers. B: is a sheath with ring which slips on the pin of the brooch, transforming it into a locket. Forms a set with 1946-50-24ab.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the estate and in memory of Robert B. Noyes
- ca. 1880
- Accession Number
- 1946-50-25-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Brooch and pendant
- Type
- Brooch and pendant
- Medium
- Gold, enamel
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 9.4 x 4.5 x 1 cm (3 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 3/8 in.)
- Place
- France or Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1946-50-25-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq445810e2b-875b-4b80-a801-45711abea2b8
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