Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a diadem (small crown or tiara). Above a band are two bigger and, outside, two smaller volutes, with the scrolls bending upwards; those are connected by chains with 5 and 3 round diamonds respectively. On the cusps, ovoid diamonds on feet. In the spherical triangles of the intervals, a big round diamond surrounded by smaller ones. Upon the band and the volutes are rows of diamonds.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- early 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-876
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and sepia wash on light brown paper
- Dimensions
- 10 × 18.8 cm (3 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
- made in
- possibly Siena, 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_1938-88-876
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4dcb8cfa2-029b-417b-9bf9-b3eae7ed354c
