Pedestal, probably for a trestle table
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The Art of the Forbidden City, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 30 – February 28, 1955.
Do you think that this piece looks “modern?” The first Western collectors of Chinese furniture certainly thought so. They were influenced by 20th century Bauhaus movement, which argued that modern furniture should be plain and elegant. Collectors of Chinese furniture admired stands such as this as “modern” and incorporated them into Western interiors.
Dr. Otto Burchard;
Purchased from Dr. Otto Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 345 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 364, no. 249 (repro.).
