Pen and ink, brush and gray, yellow watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
16 × 23.1 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
Type:
jewelry
Drawing
Object Name:
Drawing
Made in:
Italy
Date:
ca. 1830
Catalogue Status:
Research in Progress
Description:
Jewelry design for a hair comb intended to be executed in gilded, partly engraved metal and diamonds. Seventeen tines. The cresting border consists of hearts with, on top, a big diamond between two small pearls, inside a lozenge with four pearls instead of the angles. The central row contains two chains of pearls and eight bigger pearls below as a junction to the engraved band.
Credit Line:
Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
