Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal and diamonds. Thirty-five tines. The low cresting is divided in three rows. Below, drapery festoons in engraving. In the middle, a chain of diamonds; cresting border with alternating: a flower stem with a diamond as blossom and two leaves and a stem stacked with a small diamond below and a large diamond above, connected by curves.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1830
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-756
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 16 × 22.9 cm (6 5/16 in. × 9 in.)
- made in
- Italy
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1938-88-756
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45cbb3a4f-d0cf-4e10-b6d6-1e145e4d338d
