Design for a Sofa
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Object Details
- Artist
- Matthew Liard, English, ca. 1736–1782
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Sofa turned and fluted legs and wrap-around sides and wood trim is seen from the front. The trimis detailed with fluted acanthus volutes and in the center of the back trim there is a bud separated by two acanthus leaves from which hangs a swag.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- ca. 1760
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-205
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- furniture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and ink, brush and rose washes on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 21.0 x 30.4 cm (8 1/4 x 11 15/16 in. )
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-205
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4722a548c-74a5-41a3-9d5b-828ad18efcc8
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