Drawing, Design for an Earring, ca. 1800 (CH 18552389)

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Drawing, Design for an Earring, ca. 1800 (CH 18552389)

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Jewelry design for an earring. Hanging from two points of the ring is a chain consisting in its front half of alternating blossoms and disks, in its rear half of ribbons in shape of the figure eight. Bevelled corners.

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