Design for a sedan chair
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. The upper rim is waved. Leaf branches are at the corners and on top of the roof. Tassels hang at corners. The panels beside the window and the corresponding one at the back are decorated with garlands as frames and inside with an oval medallion with a standing woman, at the back an octagonal representation of a sacrifice, laterally. Above and below are roughly sketched ornaments. The lower panels have similar frames. Festoons are inside. They hang from knobs and respectively from a child's and a ram's head. The bar is decorated in the width of the chair.
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: 1900-1-9
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and ink, brush and various water colors on paper with additional black chalk
label: Dimensions
content: 24.8 x 41.1 cm (9 3/4 x 16 3/16 in.)