Drawing, Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace, early 19th century (CH 18551519)

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Drawing, Design for a Comb, Earring and Necklace, early 19th century (CH 18551519)

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Jewelry designs for a hair comb, earring, and a necklace, all with the same motifs. The comb at upper center with seventeen tines; three rows of beads connecting alternatively one of three blossoms composed of round diamonds with a frame of eight smaller ones around, and one of two lozenges, formed by eight round diamonds with a central one. The earring below; the front of a double-sloped ring supports a blossom from which two chains are hanging, supporting in the center a lozenge, and below the drop, formed by three diamonds, with a frame like the blossom. The curving necklace encloses both the earring and comb; necklace consists of three chains of heads with, alternating, seven blossoms and six lozenges.

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1800 - 1900
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Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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