Design for a Sedan Chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown in profile, turned toward right, with one bar. Pomegranates stand in the center and at the corners of the roof. Tassels hang at the upper corners. The panel beside the window shows a scroll rising from the lower right corner from which garlands hang and a medallion with the monogram, CF. The lower panels have above leaf scrolls; a spiral of the left one is in the lower left corner of the upper panel. From the ends of the scrolls garlands hang down, those from the inside ones are intertwined around the vertical molding framing the panels. The bar is decorated with rinceaux. The mountings are shown.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1900-24-6
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and yellow, brown, blue, purple, rose watercolors, pen and Chinese ink, black chalk on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.7 x 39.6 cm (9 3/4 x 15 9/16 in.)