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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, 1964.228", "current_location": null, "title": "Low Table (kang zhuo) with Dragons in Clouds", "title_in_original_language": "\u9ec3\u82b1\u68a8\u96f2\u9f8d\u7d0b\u7095\u684c", "creation_date": "1600s\u20131700s", "creation_date_earliest": 1600, "creation_date_latest": 1799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911)"], "technique": "Rosewood (huanghuali) and metal", "support_materials": [], "department": "Chinese Art", "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty", "type": "Furniture and woodwork", "measurements": "Overall: 29 x 97.2 x 69.2 cm (11 7/16 x 38 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.29, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375, "width": 0.972, "width_inch": 38, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.692, "depth_inch": 27, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 310300, "title": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection", "description": "<i>The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).", "opening_date": "1990-07-05T04:00:00"}, {"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"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "David Ketel, the Netherlands", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Frank Caro [1904\u20131980], New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?\u20131961", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Severance A. [1895\u20131985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903\u20131989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1961\u201364", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1964\u2013", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Note the curved legs, the elaborate openwork carving, and metal-fitted corners in the form of bats.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Originally, low tables were placed on a <em>kang, </em>a raised platform made of brick and heated by a fire underneath, which served as a bed and living space on cold winter days in northern China. During the daytime, these platforms could accommodate two sitters with a kang table placed between them. <br><br>In the warmer south, kang tables were used on daybeds made of wood. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, furniture makers used rare tropical hardwood, such as <em>huanghuali, </em>known as rosewood.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80038190"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1964.228-low-table-kang-zhuo"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Handler, Sarah. <em>Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furnitur</em>e. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.", "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 11.16, p. 174", "url": null}, {"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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