Design for a Coronet
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a coronet (small crown). Below is a band framed above and below by rows of beads and at the sides by a leaf; it contains two entwined ribbons with red diamonds above every other crossing point. The cresting has nine sapphires framed by rows of brilliants, upon the points of inversed circles. Bevelled corners.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1820
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-774
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and sepia ink, brush and watercolor on light blue paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 × 25.6 cm (4 15/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
- made in
- probably Naples, South Italy, 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_1938-88-774
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46dd30bf3-6043-4346-a88a-7951642a7ec8
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