Design for a sedan chair
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Shown from the rear corner with open door. A point with fringes stands in the middle of the roof, srolls at the corners. Tassels hang from them. The panels are framed by vine rinceaux with a pole and scrolls. In that beside the window stands a vase with a fire above. In the other panels are plant candelabra. That in the upper black panel ends below an ovoid chevron ermine between three crescents, 1, 2. The bar shows the vine rinceau. The mounting is shown at the right end of the back bar. Something has been erased in the angle of the front foot.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
- 1770-1780
- Accession Number
- 1900-24-4
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Black chalk, pen, black ink, brush, grey and various watercolors on paper
- Dimensions
- 25 × 41.5 cm (9 13/16 × 16 5/16 in.)
- made in
- London, England
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1900-24-4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq426310512-15f3-4ae0-9f06-f9c0abb891b6
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