id: 140246 accession number: 1964.228 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.228 updated: 2022-05-10 09:00:48.511000 Low Table (kang zhuo) with Dragons in Clouds, 1600s–1700s. China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Rosewood (huanghuali) and metal; overall: 29 x 97.2 x 69.2 cm (11 7/16 x 38 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.228 title: Low Table (kang zhuo) with Dragons in Clouds title in original language: 黃花梨雲龍紋炕桌 series: series in original language: creation date: 1600s–1700s creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1799 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: Rosewood (huanghuali) and metal department: Chinese Art collection: China - Ming Dynasty type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 29 x 97.2 x 69.2 cm (11 7/16 x 38 1/4 x 27 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection opening date: 1990-07-05T04:00:00 The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990). title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE David Ketel, the Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: (Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin) date: ?–1961 footnotes: citations: Severance A. [1895–1985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903–1989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1961–64 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1964– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Note the curved legs, the elaborate openwork carving, and metal-fitted corners in the form of bats. digital description: Originally, low tables were placed on a kang, 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.

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 huanghuali, known as rosewood. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Handler, Sarah. Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. page number: Reproduced: fig. 11.16, p. 174 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.228/1964.228_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.228/1964.228_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1964.228/1964.228_full.tif