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Char du Soleil
From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
A small two-wheeled chariot filled with flowers, drawn by a white horse across clouds and the bursting rays of the sun. A white scroll trails behind the chariot, serving as a base for a tent and a cluster of flowers. Brocaded in white, blue, green, pink, and brown on a turquoise ground. This unit is repeated in offset horizontal rows, alternating direction.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineChar du Soleil. ca. 1760. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane. CC0.
