{"data": {"id": 132966, "accession_number": "1955.40.2", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Roundback Armchair: Lohan Type (\u9ec3\u82b1\u68a8\u5708\u6905), 1600s\u20131700s. China, Jiangsu province, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644) or Qing dynasty (1644\u20131911). Rosewood (huanghuali); overall: 86 x 58.4 cm (33 7/8 x 23 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1955.40.2", "current_location": null, "title": "Roundback Armchair: Lohan Type", "title_in_original_language": "\u9ec3\u82b1\u68a8\u5708\u6905", "creation_date": "1600s\u20131700s", "creation_date_earliest": 1600, "creation_date_latest": 1799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Jiangsu province, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644) or Qing dynasty (1644\u20131911)"], "technique": "Rosewood (huanghuali)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 86 x 58.4 cm (33 7/8 x 23 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.86, "height_inch": 33, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "depth": 0.584, "depth_inch": 23, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0, "length": 0.636, "length_inch": 25, "length_inch_fraction": 0.0625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"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 [1895-1990]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895-1984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1955", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1955-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["1955.41"], "did_you_know": "Similar chairs with low, straight backs were presumably used by women or in a less formal context.", "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>This horseshoe-back armchair was made in Jiangsu province. Its simplicity and minimalist elegance is characteristic of Suzhou-style furniture and aesthetics. The back of the chair is 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 Neolithic fragments of the Hemudu culture.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80025088"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1955.40.2-roundback-armchair-l"]}, "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. 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