Cushion (Chair)

2003-78-20

From: Tunisia

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 2003-78-20
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Tunisia
Section African
Materials Leather
Technique Tanned | Sewn | Woven | Dyed | Tooled
Description

A rectangular cushion cover of a tanned piece of leather, folded, pinked, and sewn together at back where in the center there is an opening for stuffing; each closed end has a narrow band of green leather attached with weaving and stitching of leather strips; attached at center of each end is a triangular tab of folded leather; the front of each tab is tooled with geometric lines.

Length 79 cm
Width 23 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1895.1.132 - Other Number | 13502 - Other Number | 3020 - Other Number

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