Design for a sedan chair
date: label: Date
content: 1770-1775
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Shown from the rear right corner with two bars. The upper panel of the back has a small window in an escutcheon hanging from a nail, which also supports festoons. Below is a rocaille fountain with an escutcheon on top, from which garlands stretch to the lower corners. In the escurcheon are two coats of arms, conjoined paleways. Heraldic right: a bend sinister between three blossoms, 1, 2, left: a fess between three, [spade icon], 2, 1. In the lower panel is a festoon. In the panel beside the lateral window are festoons hanging from a ram head. In the lower panels are a branch and festoons respectively. Tassels hang from the corners. The bar is decorated in the middle. Something was written in the triangle of the foot at the front and has been erased.
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: 1900-1-15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, watercolor, and traces of charchoal on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.9 × 41.7 cm (9 13/16 × 16 7/16 in.)