Tabouret

CultureChinese

Dateearly 18th century

MediumLacquered wood with painted and incised decoration

DimensionsOverall: 37 1/8 × 21 × 21 inches (94.31 × 53.34 × 53.34 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-51/2

On View

Not on view

Collections

East Asian Art

Terms

DescriptionRed lacquer stand with a square top, four slender, curved legs, and a square base; decorated with flower and bird designs.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Art of the Forbidden City, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1955.

Provenance

With Pai Teh Jen, Peking (today Beijing), China, by January 25, 1932;

Purchased from Pai Teh Jen, through Laurence Sickman (1906-1988), by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932 [1].

NOTES:

[1] Included on a list of purchases made in China in 1932 by Laurence Sickman, Nelson-Atkins advisor on Asian art. Harvard Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, box 15, folder 32, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

Published References

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), 347 (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), 376, fig. 289 (repro.).

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