Cushion (Chair)
2003-48-36
From: Dahomey | Benin
Curatorial Section: African
| 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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