Tea or Wine Table
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The Art of the Forbidden City, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 30 – February 28, 1955.
Would you like a cup of tea? In a traditional Chinese reception room small tables were placed between pairs of chairs. Chinese officials still use this arrangement for receiving guests, who sit side by side, rather than facing each other. The tables were used for serving tea or wine or for the display of porcelains.
With Otto Burchard (1892-1965), Peking (now Beijing), China and New York, by February 1946 [1];
Purchased from Burchard by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
NOTES:
[1] This object was part of a group of furniture Otto Burchard brought with him when he moved from China to the United States in 1946. This group was first mentioned by Laurence Sickman, Curator of Asian Art, in a letter to J.C. Nichols, Nelson-Atkins Trustee, February 19, 1946, Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, box 9, folder 11.
