Cushion (Chair)

2003-48-36

From: Dahomey | Benin

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-48-36
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Dahomey | Benin
Section African
Materials Leather | Thread
Technique Sewn | Embroidered
Description

Furnishing: an oblong leather cushion, front and back joined by continuous strips of white leather; front consists of patchwork designs with four rectangles decorated with cutouts of white leather embroidered over with red and blue thread in a scroll and diamond shape

Height 6 cm
Length 46 cm
Width 34 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.202 - Other Number

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