Chair Cover
Object Number: | C274 |
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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: | 167 cm |
Width: | 53.2 cm |
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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