Design for a sedan chair
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. The window has two panels and a curtain. The panel beside it is decorated with a disk with a small garland and a flower stem curving from the lower right to the upper left corners. The upper parts of the upper panel of the back and of all the three bottom panels are decorated with festoons hanging at bow knots. A small escutcheon is in the center above the lower edge of the upper panel of the back. Crowns are at the corners and on top of the roof. Tassels hand at the corners.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1775
- Accession Number
- 1900-1-8
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- furniture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and various water colors on paper
- Dimensions
- 24.8 x 41.1 cm (9 3/4 x 16 3/16 in.)
- made in
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1900-1-8
