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Title
Side chair
Subject
Furniture
Description
Side chair, in 17th century style, with tall, rectangular back, canework seat, turned stretchers, the whole frame with carved floral scroll design. RJ
Source
National Museum of Sri Lanka, Pettah
Date
1800-1899
Relation
Detail of top
Detail, nmp89_43_1_1
Identifier
nmp89.43.1
FDASL Item Type Metadata
Period
19th century
Place of Creation
SW Sri Lanka
Measurements (H: W: L:)
127 x 59 x 46 cm. (50 x 23 1/5 x 18 1/10 in.)
Materials
Ebony
Techniques
Carved and joined
Features
Floral scroll carving
Notes
For an identical 19th century chair in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA, see Jaffer (2001) p. 368
Collection
Dublin Core XML
Citation
"Side chair," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #1218, http://dlir.org/archive/items/show/1218 (accessed May 16, 2024).