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Brooch, Small snail, 2014

Brooch, Small snail, 2014
white gold, diamonds, snail shell.
Courtesy of FD Gallery.
20.2015.1a,b

Earrings, 2013
copper, white gold, sapphires, spinels, rubellite, tourmaline.
Courtesy of FD Gallery.
20.2015.2a/c

Brooch, Large snail, 2014

Brooch, Large snail, 2014
white gold, diamonds, snail shell.
Courtesy of FD Gallery.
20.2015.3a,b

Earrings, 2014
white gold, cameos, diamonds.
Courtesy of FD Gallery.
20.2015.4a/c

Ring, 2013
iron, copper, white gold, diamond.
Courtesy of Hemmerle.
21.2015.1a,b

Ring, 2013
bronze, white gold, diamond.
Courtesy of Hemmerle.
21.2015.2a,b

Earrings, Honey bee, 2014

Earrings, Honey bee, 2014
bronze, iron, pink gold, red gold, amber.
60.2015.1a/c

Ring, from Garden of Delight Spring / Summer 2013 collection, 2012

Ring, from Garden of Delight Spring / Summer 2013 collection, 2012
gold, black diamonds, yellow sapphires, freshwater pearl.
Courtesy of Delfina Delettrez.
24.2015.4a,b

Grasshopper cage with artificial insect.

Insect Cage, 19th century
woven reed, gilded paper (dome); lacquered wood (base); paper, wire and....
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-1-a/d

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Moulded figure of fly-like insect with outspread wings. Legs, dark brown, head and wings whitish, body striped with yellow.

Insect Figure, 1937
earthenware, glaze.
Museum purchase from the Misses Hewitt Fund.
1937-62-8

This object was made by Moravian Pottery and Tile Works.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Three yellowed stems with foliage all along length oriented diagonally, tops facing upward right. Four beetles and three bees crawl and fly on and around the stems. Three dragonflies and a smaller winged insect fly around stem.

Drawing, Textile or Wallpaper Design: Insects, 19th century
brush and gouache on cream paper.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-107-27

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

In the form of a cicada, with bulging eyes on head, large veined wings, and ribbed body. Reverse features underside of insect, textured belly probably intended as striker. Head serves as lid, hinged on reverse (underside) allowing it to open by flipping back.

Cicada Matchsafe, late 19th century
plated metal.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1980-14-1311

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Large dragon flies with spread wings with bamboo foliage. Design reserved in white, ground printed black. Copy of a Japanese katagami from the collection.

Textile (USA), 1955
cotton.
1955-136-1

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

An injured butterfly is shown lying in the middle of a stretcher carried by two butterflies (one on the left and one right). Another butterfly walks beside the butterfly carrying the stretcher on the right. A small butterfly with a parasol or umbrella flies above the injured butterfly. The area underneath the ground they walk on is shown at the bottom of the composition, and the words "LE BLESSÉ" are printed in black at the bottom center.

Bound Print, Plate 1, Le Blessé (The Injured), Premier Essai de...
etching on laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-402-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Ornamental cartouche composed of auricular, cartilage-like form in a heart shape, surmounted by a half-length female winged figure. At either side, similar forms of volute shape rest on a grasshopper, left, and a tortoise, right.

Print, Plate 28, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-27

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Ornamental vase of auricular, cartilage-like form and containing plants terminating in grotesque heads and intertwined by spider webs. The base of the vine is composed of four turtle-like insects.

Print, Plate 44, from Neüw Grotteßken Buch (New Grotesque Book), 1610
engraving on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Estate of David Wolfe Bishop.
1957-162-34

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Octagonal print of title page showing vegetal cartouche containing title, with insects and fantastic creature wearing a hat.

Print, Title plate, from Die Folge der phantastichen Scmucksträße (Suite of...
etching on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-28-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Octagonal print showing a nosegay plant; two grotesque head-monsters flank the bottom of the plant; symmetrical arabesque motif with creatures.

Print, Plate 1, from Die Folge der phantastichen Scmucksträße (Suite of...
etching on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-28-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Octagonal print showing a symmetrical architectural arabesque motif with creatures. Masks in the lowest scrolls, grotesque insects flanking the top.

Print, Plate 2, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträße (Suite of...
etching on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-28-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Two grotesque birds flank the vase from which the nosegay rises.

Print, Plate 5, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträβe (Suite of...
etching on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-29-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Double head of two men, one of whom wears a fool's cap, in the center, embodying Pride and Foolishness, which form the theme of the representations in the outer circle: the wife upon the dragon of the Revelations of St. John; Phaeton's death; the original sin; Marcus Curtius jumping into the abyss; a woman with a looking glass; a peacock; monsters. Inscriptions in Low German and French.

Print, Orgueille et follie (Pride and Folly), ca. 1578
engraving on white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
1942-36-33

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Mercury shown in a landscape, holding a caduceus with one hand. The figure is set within a medallion on a dark field (sur fond noir) decorated with intricate grotesques.

Print, Mercury, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement...
engraving on laid paper.
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.
1921-6-528-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

The edges of the sheet are framed by candelabra (rendered in half form) and composed of a variety of swags and animals Fantastic animals at center left and right threaten a small saytr at center who balances on a swag. At bottom a sphinx with human face crouches, facing left.

Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration, mid–late 16th century
pen and brown ink, black chalk on laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and....
1994-64-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Vertical oval in rectangle showing a grotesque designs on a black ground. At center, under a baldacchino, Juno stands surrounded by scrolls, fantastic creatures, vases, and fruits.

Print, Juno, from the series Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et...
engraving on off-white laid paper.
Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
1945-6-3-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

PermaNet, 2000
100% polyester impregnated with deltamethrin (synthetic parathyroid).
DO90.025

This object was made by Vestergaard Frandsen S.A..
There are 5 images of this object.

Presentation drawing featuring the final design of the Tall Bee Vase.

Drawing, Design for Tall Bee Vase, 1997
graphite, brush and acrylic wash with metallic dust on white paper.
Gift of Michael Izrael Galmer.
2015-38-10

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.

Rectangular form with gabled roof; corner posts sheathed in bamboo; looped wire for sliding door; wire hook in center of roof.

Cricket Cage (Italy), ca. 1903
wood, bamboo, metal wire.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-6

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Upright rectangular cage with peaked roof having loop handle at top, zigzag wire along front and side edges; swinging door on spring; red-painted wood base with four circular wire feet.

Cricket Cage (Italy), ca. 1903
metal wire, stained wood.
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt.
1916-40-7

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Necklace with three large oval pendants containing floral designs; each surrounded by a coiled green and silver border; chain of large links and clasp.
*Green pigment not consistently applied

Necklace, 2015
clear and mirrored arcylic glass, pressed and layered flower petals and....
The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
2016-34-61

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.

Off-white cotton sheer ground with embroidered design of a stylized floral spray with two large blossoms and numerous small ones curving to the left. The vines are executed in gold foil strips, the small flowers in gilt sequins, and the leaves in beetle elytra.

Fragment (India), mid- 19th century
cotton ground, beetle elytra, gold foil strips, gilt sequins, gold....
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt.
1931-43-20

This object is part of the Textiles collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Motif of Rose chafer beetle, greatly magnified, repeating in diagonal rows. Printed in green, blue and black against a white background. The Mylar support creates an irridescence that is inherent to the rose chafer.

Sidewall, Beetle, 2016
digital print on mylar.
Gift of Astek Inc..
2016-21-1

This object was made by Astek Inc..
This object is part of the Wallcoverings collection.

Curiosity Cloud, 2015–2019

Curiosity Cloud, 2015–2019
installation, specimen display, book.
Courtesy of mischer'traxler Studio.
NATURE.001

Curvilinear foliage with insect with plique-a-jour enamel wings, opal on stem.

Butterfly Stick Pin Finial, ca. 1890–1910
silver, opal, enamel.
Gift of Alice Stern.
1994-120-1

This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Poster, Tokyo Communication Arts, 1991
offset lithograph on paper.
Gift of Marion S. Rand.
2002-11-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Circular dish with deep concave center. Outer edge with seven chased lobes. Wide flat border rises in curve toward center, chased with seven foliated poppy stems with seven blossoms, seven buds, four seed pods, three butterflies, and two flies, all in high relief. Stems continue into recessed center as stylized swirls and lobes. Textured hammered surface visible in all flat areas, smooth on central lobes. Reverse of dish heavily patinated.

Dish (England), 1907–08
silver.
Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment.
1985-64-1

This object was made by Holland, Aldwinkle & Slater.
This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
There are 2 images of this object.