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Low Table (kang zhuo) with Dragons in Clouds
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated 1600s–1700s. Recorded culture or place: China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
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- Museum title
- Low Table (kang zhuo) with Dragons in Clouds
- Date
- 1600s–1700s
- Culture / origin
- China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Materials and technique
- Rosewood (huanghuali) and metal
- Dimensions
- Overall: 29 x 97.2 x 69.2 cm (11 7/16 x 38 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1964.228
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Originally, low tables were placed on a kang, a raised platform made of brick and heated by a fire underneath, which served as a bed and living space on cold winter days in northern China. During the daytime, these platforms could accommodate two sitters with a kang table placed between them.
In the warmer south, kang tables were used on daybeds made of wood. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, furniture makers used rare tropical hardwood, such as huanghuali, known as rosewood.
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