Fragment, medallion | Types | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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A vertical rectangle photograph of an oval shaped medallion fragment on a light grey background. The medallion is wood, painted a dark brown with gold gilding and an oval center that is open tho the background below. The gold gilding is on a flat oval shaped outer edge, just inside that is a bead pattern also gilded in gold with a gilded swirl of hair or perhaps fire coming off the center oval. The medallion is broken it three places, horizontally across the middle of both sides and one break diagonally through the bottom breaking it into three pieces.

Fragment, Medallion (possibly Italy), late 18th century
wood, painted and gilded.
1906-9-4-a/c

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