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Chair Cover
| Object Number: | C274 |
| Current Location: | Collections storage |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Provenience: | China |
| Period: | Qing Dynasty |
| Date Made: | 18th - 19th Century |
| Early Date: | 1700 |
| Late Date: | 1899 |
| Section: | Asian |
| Materials: | Silk Velvet Gold Thread |
| Iconography: | Lion Dragon Lotus Fan Books Pearl |
| Length: | 167cm |
| Width: | 53.2cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from C. T. Loo, 1916 |
Description
Long textile, designed as a chair cover, shows four vertically stacked sections of decoration. Each section was intended to cover a different part of the chair. At the bottom are depicted waves with a rock and two lions around a brocaded ball. This section would have hung off the seat of the chair. Above, a lotus blossom in a four-point foliated border, clouds, and an auspicious fan and stack of books would have ornamented the chair seat. Above, a four-clawed dragon with a pearl would have been on the chair’s back splat. Finally, the section showing one inverted four-clawed dragon would have draped over the back of the chair. A band of dragons and vapors with clouds borders the textile on all four sides. C274 and C275 are a pair.
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