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Lit à la Chinoise (Chinese Bed), from Nouvelle iconologie historique (part III, series marked 'G')

Publisher Jean François Daumont French
1771 or after
Not on view
Design for a canopy bed decorated with Chinese figures. The bed is presented from the side and is characterized by a baldachin-shaped canopy crowned by a plume of feathers.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lit à la Chinoise (Chinese Bed), from Nouvelle iconologie historique (part III, series marked 'G')
  • Artist: Jean Charles Delafosse (French, Paris 1734–1789 Paris)
  • Publisher: Jean François Daumont (French, active 1740–75)
  • Date: 1771 or after
  • Medium: Etching and engraving
  • Dimensions: Plate: 13 × 9 1/8 in. (33 × 23.2 cm)
  • Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929
  • Object Number: 29.58.32(11)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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