Design for a Sedan Chair
date: label: Date
content: 1775–80
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown in profile turned toward right with one bar. A pineapple stands on top of the vaulted roof which is decorated with festoons and other floral ornaments. It is bordered by rows of leaves. Masks are at the corners from which the tassels hang. The panels are framed by intertwined branches. That beside the window shows an ovoid with a coat of arms hanging between festoons from a bow knot; azure bandlet sinister scarlet between three bezants 1, 2 a gyron white, ermine. Garlands dragging over disks decorated the other panels. The bar shows and oblong somewhat broader than the chair; it is framed by garlands and contains a "running dog" of leaves.
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: 1900-24-3
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, and other colors of watercolor, pen and Chinese ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.7 x 40.6 cm (9 3/4 x 16 in.)