{"data": {"id": 125219, "accession_number": "1947.183.1", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Settee, before 1717. Royal Savonnerie Manufactory, Chaillot Workshops (French, est. 1627). Carved wood, Savonnerie knotted-pile (symmetrical rug knot) upholstery; wool, hemp ; overall: 120 x 201.3 x 55.9 cm (47 1/4 x 79 1/4 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1947.183.1", "current_location": null, "title": "Settee", "creation_date": "before 1717", "creation_date_earliest": 1712, "creation_date_latest": 1717, "artists_tags": ["gender unknown"], "culture": ["France"], "technique": "carved wood, Savonnerie knotted-pile (symmetrical rug knot) upholstery; wool, hemp ", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Furniture", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 120 x 201.3 x 55.9 cm (47 1/4 x 79 1/4 x 22 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 1.2, "height_inch": 47, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 2.013, "width_inch": 79, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.559, "depth_inch": 22, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "formed part of original suite of tapestries and furniture made for marriage of Isabella Merode-Westerloo and Franz Joseph Czernin de Chaudnitz in 1717; remained in the family until 1930 or 1931, when they were sold to a dealer.  (A. & R. Ball, New York).", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["47.183"], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "These chairs belong to a suite that includes a settee (also in the CMA\u2019s collection) and a tapestry made for a count and countess to mark their wedding in 1717. Furniture of this scale was usually placed against the wall in grand reception halls, more as a display of wealth than for use. Upholstered in Savonnerie tapestries, this suite was among the most treasured and expensive example anyone could own and typically reserved for royalty. <br> <br>To add decorative and intellectual interest to the textiles, weavers incorporated symbols depicting various stories from the <em>Fables of Jean de La Fontaine</em>, published from 1668 to 1694 and largely adapted from Aesop and other early storytellers.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79903569"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1947.183.1-settee"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 286", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n58"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 132-133", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.183.1", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "757", "filesize": "717858", "filename": "1947.183.1_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2037", "filesize": "4371617", "filename": "1947.183.1_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_full.tif", "width": "4923", "height": "2949", "filesize": "43578208", "filename": "1947.183.1_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "1263", "height": "788", "filesize": "701099"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2122", "filesize": "4318173"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt0_full.tif", "width": "5000", "height": "3120", "filesize": "46823996"}, "date_created": "2005-02-18T16:19:57", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "629", "height": "893", "filesize": "578242"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "2393", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6657190"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.183.1/1947.183.1_alt1_full.tif", "width": "3519", "height": "5000", "filesize": "52814392"}, "date_created": "2005-02-18T18:22:27", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "John L. 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