Side Table
Original Language Title黃花梨木明式平頭案 民国
CultureChinese
Date20th century
MediumHuanghuali wood
DimensionsOverall: 31 1/2 × 15 3/4 × 48 inches (80.01 × 40.01 × 121.92 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number64-4/11
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionA huanghuali rectangular table with typical mitred, mortise and tenon from top with a flush floating panel top with inset round legs cut to receive the undecorated square joined shaped aprons with two oval shaped stretchers joining the legs from to back.Exhibition HistoryFrom Ming to Ch'ing, The Taft Museum,
Cincinnati, OH, February 11 - October 12, 1975.
When the museum purchased this side table, it was believed to date to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Recently, a Chinese furniture specialist suggested that the top panel is a later replacement and its frame cut down from a larger table. On a real Ming Dynasty table, the legs would splay out. Do questions about an object’s authenticity change how you see it?
Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II;
Purchased from Mrs. and Mrs. James P. Speer II by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1964.
Helena Hayward. ed., Douglas Ash et al., World Furniture: an Illustrated History (London: Paul Hamlyn, 1965), 278, fig. 1065 (repro.).
ART News Annual, no. 31 (New York: Newsweek, 1966), 143 (repro.).
Laurence Sickman, “Chinese Classic Furniture,” Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society 1977-78 (London: 1979), 1-12, pl. 3B (repro.).
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