{"data": {"id": 132990, "accession_number": "1955.42", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Side Table with Everted Ends, late 1500s\u20131600s. China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644). Redwood veneer and camphor wood; overall: 88 x 51.8 cm (34 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1955.42", "current_location": "240B Chinese Decorative Arts", "title": "Side Table with Everted Ends", "creation_date": "late 1500s\u20131600s", "creation_date_earliest": 1580, "creation_date_latest": 1680, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Ming dynasty (1368\u20131644)"], "technique": "redwood veneer and camphor wood", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 88 x 51.8 cm (34 5/8 x 20 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.88, "height_inch": 34, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.518, "width_inch": 20, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375, "length": 2.216, "length_inch": 87, "length_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "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": [], "did_you_know": "Camphor wood is excellent for furniture making because of its attractive wood grain patterns and its distinctive scent that repels insects.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Classic Chinese furniture is an art of carpentry and joinery, which makes use of a mortise-and-tenon framework. Design and craftsmanship, coupled with the organic material of the hardwood, create endless aesthetic possibilities. <br><br>This side table is beautifully carved with cloud-collar spandrels on the aprons as well as openwork panels with cloud-collar patterns inset between the legs and the feet. The table has a narrow top in proportion to its length and bears the detail of the upturned ends that makes it more formal, and possibly used as an altar table.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60751318"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1955.42-side-table-with-ever"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Kates, George N., Caroline Frances Bieber, Beatrice M. Kates, and Hedda Morrison. <em>Chinese Household Furniture</em>. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers, 1948.", "page_number": "Reproduced:  pl. 29, p. 78", "url": null}, {"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. 51", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142197"}, {"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: no. 58, p. 160; Reproduced: p. 250", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.42", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "487", "filesize": "69129", "filename": "1955.42_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "1838", "filesize": "491733", "filename": "1955.42_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_full.tif", "width": "8000", "height": "4325", "filesize": "103829108", "filename": "1955.42_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "900", "height": "582", "filesize": "87459"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2200", "filesize": "678589"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.42/1955.42_alt0_full.tif", "width": "7427", "height": "4805", "filesize": "107090024"}, "date_created": "2014-03-04T13:18:39", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "The Norweb Collection", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Clara T. Rankin Galleries of Chinese Art", "athena_id": 132990, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1955-03-10T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1580, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "late 1500s\u20131600s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": ["Formal Side Table: tiao-an", "Formal Side Table (Tiao'an)"], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:50:31.433000"}}