Designer:

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794  Search this

Medium:

Pen and ink, brush and gray, red watercolor on paper

Dimensions:

9.4 × 13.3 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/4 in.)

Type:

jewelry

Drawing

Object Name:

Drawing

Made in:

possibly Siena, Italy

Date:

ca. 1770

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Jewelry designs for three brooches. Above at left, a branch with red cherries and two doves; at right a branch with three blossoming flowers. Below in the interval, a branch with two interlaced ribbons studded with gems. Beveled corners.

Credit Line:

Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund

Accession Number:

1938-88-875

Restrictions & Rights:

CC0

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection

Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department

Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4e638bb48-e021-4de3-ac67-caceff79b8af

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:chndm_1938-88-875