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 roof is shaped like a tent. On top and at the corners are fitted baskets. The window is divided into five parts by scrolls. The panel beside it is mainly decorated by garlands distributed like spikes of a shell around a disk. The upper panel at the back is decorated with frosted ovals. A crown of a baron is in the central one. The lower lateral panels are decorated assymmetrically. In the left part of the upper one is an escutcheon with a monogram [H or M]. The bars are decorated in their entire length. Both are so 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: 1900-1-17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, watercolors, and traces of charchoal on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 24.8 × 41.2 cm (9 3/4 × 16 1/4 in.)