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"title": "Side Table with Everted Ends",
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"did_you_know": "Camphor wood is excellent for furniture making because of its attractive wood grain patterns and its distinctive scent that repels insects.",
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"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.
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.",
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"citation": "Kates, George N., Caroline Frances Bieber, Beatrice M. Kates, and Hedda Morrison. Chinese Household Furniture. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cChinese Domestic Furniture.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 3, 1957, pp. 48\u201353.",
"page_number": "Reprodued: p. 51",
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"citation": "Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield. Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Ch\u02bcing Dynasties. New Fairfield, CT: Robert H. Ellsworth, 1997.",
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