A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire (1842)
Langdon, William B · London : Printed for the proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection · leaf 51
king out; on it are inscribed the name and rank of the owner. Theinterior of the sedan is just large enough for the convenient reception of asingle occupant. Instead of panels, the sides are covered with a coloredsilk for lightness, and there is an additional covering of oil-cloth, to beused in… … 41 home of comfort and repose. The illustrious Falstaff never took mineease in mine inn more luxuriously than the rich Chinaman in hisvaunted sedan. This vehicle is much used by the wealthy, and affordsalmost the only mode of land-travelling known, the horse being rarely,though sometimes employed.…
Art objects, Chinese
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