Side Table
CultureChinese
Dateearly 20th century
MediumRosewood (huanghuali)
DimensionsOverall: 33 3/4 × 14 1/4 × 63 3/4 inches (85.73 × 36.2 × 161.93 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-73
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DescriptionA huali rectangular table with single board flush floating panel top with a mitred mortise and tenon frame with square-section legs with a double incense stick beading cut to receive the mitred square-shaped beaded aprons. The legs are joined by a high square stretcher above a mitred inner frame and slab feet cut with a low bracket foot. Early 20th century.ProvenanceWith 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.
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