Design for a Cross Pendant
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a pendant in the form of a cross. Hanging from a cord which is fastened by an agraffe (metal clasp); a blue diamond framed by an interlaced band composed of white diamonds. The pendant is a cross composed of five blue diamonds each, framed by two entwined oval bands. In the corners are rays.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-785
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and blue, yellow, gray watercolor, gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.2 x 14.7 cm (8 3/8 x 5 13/16 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_1938-88-785
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq40c7a71e6-3834-4e2f-bc9c-6b30bf695827
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