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Side Table with Everted Ends
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated late 1500s–1600s. Recorded culture or place: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
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- Museum title
- Side Table with Everted Ends
- Date
- late 1500s–1600s
- Culture / origin
- China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Materials and technique
- redwood veneer and camphor wood
- Dimensions
- Overall: 88 x 51.8 cm (34 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1955.42
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Classic Chinese furniture is an art of carpentry and joinery, which makes use of a mortise-and-tenon framework. Design and craftsmanship, coupled with the organic material of the hardwood, create endless aesthetic possibilities.
This side table is beautifully carved with cloud-collar spandrels on the aprons as well as openwork panels with cloud-collar patterns inset between the legs and the feet. The table has a narrow top in proportion to its length and bears the detail of the upturned ends that makes it more formal, and possibly used as an altar table.
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