Design for a Feather Headdress
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Jewelry design for a headdress in the form of a feather. Below at left, a stem with a blossom, a bead, leaves; at right a stem with bead and leaves, fastened to a long feather by a knotted ribbon. Beveled corners.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- late 18th century
- Accession Number
- 1938-88-874
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- jewelry
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and sepia wash on paper
- Dimensions
- 13 × 8.5 cm (5 1/8 × 3 3/8 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_1938-88-874
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4a45cc297-2fbf-4e28-bd81-7d666a854ed2
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