{"data": {"id": 132964, "accession_number": "1955.40", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Pair of Roundback Armchairs: Lohan Type (\u9ec3\u82b1\u68a8\u5708\u6905), 1600\u20131700s. China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644) to Qing dynasty (1644\u20131911). Rosewood (huanghuali); overall: 85.4 x 58.4 cm (33 5/8 x 23 in.); chair: 86 x 63.5 x 47 cm (33 7/8 x 25 x 18 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1955.40", "current_location": null, "title": "Pair of Roundback Armchairs: Lohan Type", "title_in_original_language": "\u9ec3\u82b1\u68a8\u5708\u6905", "creation_date": "1600\u20131700s", "creation_date_earliest": 1600, "creation_date_latest": 1799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644) to Qing dynasty (1644\u20131911)"], "technique": "Rosewood (huanghuali)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 85.4 x 58.4 cm (33 5/8 x 23 in.); Chair: 86 x 63.5 x 47 cm (33 7/8 x 25 x 18 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.854, "height_inch": 33, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "depth": 0.584, "depth_inch": 23, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0, "length": 0.636, "length_inch": 25, "length_inch_fraction": 0.0625}, "chair": {"height": 0.86, "height_inch": 33, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.635, "width_inch": 25, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.47, "depth_inch": 18, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 445204, "title": "World Cultures and Modern Art: The Encounter of 19th and 20th Century European Art and Music with Asia, Africa, Oceania, Afro- and Indo-America", "description": "<i>World Cultures and Modern Art: The Encounter of 19th and 20th Century European Art and Music with Asia, Africa, Oceania, Afro- and Indo-America</i>. Organisationskomitee fur die Spiele der XX. Olympiade, Munich, Germany (organizer) (May 15-September 30, 1972).", "opening_date": "1972-05-15T04:00:00"}, {"id": 383281, "title": "Stories from Storage", "description": "<i>Stories from Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).", "opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"}, {"id": 395234, "title": "China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta", "description": "<i>China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).", "opening_date": "2023-09-10T04:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "George N. Kates [1895\u20131990]", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895\u20131984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131955", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1955\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The existence of such chairs in pairs suggests that they were used in more formal settings reserved for important guests and family members of age and high status.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In history, China moved from an original floor culture to high chairs and tables, developing a unique tradition of craftsmanship. Although still relatively unexplored, the manufacturing and styles of furniture differ by region. <br><br>These horseshoe-back armchairs were made in Jiangsu province. Their simplicity and minimalist elegance are characteristic of Suzhou-style furniture and aesthetics. The backs of the chairs are made of seven pieces of wood, joined and secured with an inserted wooden pin, a mortise-tenon technique that appeared in its earliest form in Neolitihic fragments of the Hemudu culture.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80025084"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1955.40-pair-of-roundback-ar"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cChinese Domestic Furniture.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 44, no. 3, 1957, pp. 48\u201353.", "page_number": "Reprodued: p. 50", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142197"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 873", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n155"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 268", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n292"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 268", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n292"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 355", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n375"}, {"citation": "Ball, Victoria Kloss. <em>Architecture and Interior Design</em>. New York: Wiley, 1980.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 354, fig. 7.23", "url": null}, {"citation": "Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield. <em>Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch\u02bcing Dynasties</em>. New Fairfield, CT: Robert H. Ellsworth, 1997.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 241, Chair #19; Reproduced: p. 128", "url": null}, {"citation": "Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, and Stanley Abercrombie.<em> Interior Design &amp; Decoration</em>. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.", "page_number": "Reproduced: Fig. 11-11, p. 249", "url": null}, {"citation": "\"Stories from Storage.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>24, i. 5 (May 2021): 6\u20137.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6\u20137", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Spee, Clarissa von. \u201cHave a Seat! From Floor Culture to Furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasty China.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 14\u201315.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 14; Mentioned: pp. 14\u201315", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 268\u2013269, no. 123", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.40", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "627", "filesize": "191176", "filename": "1955.40_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2367", "filesize": "1079870", "filename": "1955.40_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_full.tif", "width": "10751", "height": "7484", "filesize": "76865940", "filename": "1955.40_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "708", "height": "900", "filesize": "122025"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2673", "height": "3400", "filesize": "1820547"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40/1955.40_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3550", "height": "4515", "filesize": "48108144"}, "date_created": "2015-02-18T19:15:25", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The Norweb Collection", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 132964, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1955-03-10T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1600, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1600\u20131700s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "cover", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Hoop-Backed Armchair, \"Lohan type\"", "Pair of Armchairs: Lohan Type"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:50:29.163000"}}