About 180 results for ‘Cushion’
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Cushion
A cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch. A cushion is also referred to as a bolster, hassock, headrest and a sham. Cushions and rugs can be used temporarily outside to soften a hard ground. They can be placed on sunloungers and used to prevent annoyances from moist grass and biting insects. Some dialects of English use this word to refer to throw pillows as well. The cushion is a very ancient article of furniture; the inventories of the contents of palaces and great houses in the early Middle Ages constantly made mention of them. Cushions were then often of great size, covered with leather, and firm enough to serve as a seat, but the steady tendency of all furniture has been to grow smaller with time. Cushions were, indeed, used as seats at all events in France and Spain at a very much later period, and in Saint-Simon's time we find that in the Spanish court they were still regarded as a peculiarly honourable substitute for a chair. In France, the right to kneel upon a cushion in church behind the king was jealously guarded and strictly regulated, as we learn again from Saint-Simon. This type of cushion was called a carreau, or square. When seats were rude and hard, cushions may have been a necessity; they are now one of the minor luxuries of life. Decorative cushions are likely to have a fancy cover material which are patterned style and generally used to decorate furniture.
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SACRE DE S.M. CHARLES X. (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Altar
- Archbishop
- Chapel
- Charles X of France
- Coronation
- Crown (headgear)
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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SAINT.LOUIS.ROY.DE FRANCE A ETE LE IX ROY (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Altar
- Crown (headgear)
- Crucifix
- Cushion
- Louis IX of France
- Overcoat
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- Date:
- 18th century
- 19th century
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- Field(s):
- Decorative arts
- Ethnology
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- Designation:
- chaussure (miniature)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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MADELEINE DE SAVOIE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Cushion
- Dress
- Portrait
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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LA VIERGE AU COUSSIN VERT
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Breastfeeding
- Child Jesus
- Cushion
- Deciduous
- Madonna (art)
- Watercourse
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
JOUEUSE DE GUITARE
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ST BONAVENTURE ET LA POURPRE CARDINALICE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bench (furniture)
- Bonaventure
- Cardinal (Catholicism)
- Chimney
- Clothing
- Cuisine
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- Date:
- 19th century
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ETUDE POUR LES ENERVES DE JUMIEGES ; FIGURE AU REVERS
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- Portrayed subject:
- Childeric II
- Chlothar III
- Cushion
- Injury
- Man
- Old age
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Femme nue couchée
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NATURE MORTE AVEC FLEURS ET ORFEVRERIE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Basket weaving
- Cushion
- Flower bouquet
- Goldsmith
- Passementerie
- Peony
- …
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- Date:
- 17th century
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VIERGE A L'ENFANT ASSISE
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- Field(s):
- Middle Ages
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cushion
- Madonna (art)
- Sitting
- Throne
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- Date:
- 13th century
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Statuette, esquisse de la statue tombale de Marie-Clément...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archduchess Clementina of Austria
- Archduke
- Crown (headgear)
- Cushion
- Mirror
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Statuette, esquisse de la statue tombale de Marie-Carolin...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bed
- Crown (headgear)
- Cushion
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Statuette, esquisse de la statue tombale de Marie-Clément...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Archduchess Clementina of Austria
- Archduke
- Crown (headgear)
- Cushion
- Mirror
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Ferdinand Barbedienne
FENELON (FRANÇOIS DE SALIGNAC DE LA MOTHE-FENELON) ARCHEV...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Psyché abandonnée
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cushion
- Flower
- Garland
- Leaf
- Lepidoptera
- Loneliness
- …
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Statue funéraire de Marguerite Valon, morte en 1674, épou...
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cushion
- Portrait
- Putto
- Upper limb
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Zacharie Astruc
Intérieur Parisien
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