Stool
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The Art of the Forbidden City, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 30 – February 28, 1955.
From Ming to Ch'ing, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, February 11 - October 12, 1975.
This openwork wood stool imitates stools that were originally constructed out of ovals of cane bound together. Sitting on stools was considered good for posture, as the cat in this painting clearly understood.
Dr. and Mrs. Otto Burchard;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
Gustav Ecke, Chinese Domestic Furniture (Peking: H. Vetch, 1944), pl. 141, no. 113.
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Chʼing Dynasties (New York: Random House, 1971), 241, pl. 16 (repro.).
Laurence Sickman, “Chinese Classic Furniture,” in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1977-78, vol. 42 (London: Society, 1979), 1-12, pl. 4a (repro.).
