Furniture and Decorative Arts of Sri Lanka

Dublin Core

Title

Sofa

Subject

Furniture

Description

Sofa with cane seat and armrests and crested low relief design on backrest, scallop shell roundels and foliate design, on bulbous grooved legs

Source

National Museum of Sri Lanka, Colombo

Date

1800-1899

Relation

Detail, of armrest
Detail, nmc86_405_1_1

Identifier

nmc86.405.1

FDASL Item Type Metadata

Period

19th century

Place of Creation

SW Sri Lanka

Measurements (H: W: L:)

100 x 224 x 70 cm. (39 2/5 x 88 1/5 x 27 3/5 in.)

Materials

Tropical hardwood

Techniques

Carved and joined

Features

Crested backrest

Citation

"Sofa," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #361, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/361 (accessed May 1, 2026).

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