Garden carriage for children

Children’s carriages were always built to the same quality and with the same function as carriages for adults. They served to learn how to “take the reins in hand” at an early age and were pulled by goats, sheep or ponies. W 67 is a garden carriage with upholstery and sunshade of green silk and a filigree, gold-plated chassis with swan-necks and C-springs. It is thought to have been built around 1795 for the Archduchess Marie Louise and her brothers and sisters (the elder children of Kaiser Franz II). © Monica Kurzel-Runtscheiner: Crane Neck and Gold Crepine. Courtly Splendour and Contemporary art – a confrontation,
Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 2004