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Center Table

1600s

China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty

(1644-1911)

Huali (ptero-carpus indicus [Burmese or East Indian Rosewood])

Overall: 82.5 x 94 cm (32 1/2 x 37 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1955.39

Location

not on view

Provenance
?–1955
Dr. George N. Kates [1895–1990], Westtown, PA, consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries for sale
January 1955
(Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, January 27–28, 1955 sale, lot 389, sold to Frank Caro)
1955
(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1955–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Domestic Furniture.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 44, no. 3, 1957, pp. 48–53. Reproduced: p. 49 www.jstor.org
Keppel, Sheila. China in 1700: Kangxi Porcelains at the Taft Museum: the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8-October 23, 1988, Flint Institute of Arts in the DeWaters Art Center, Flint, Michigan, April 15-June 10, 1989, Ball State University, College of Fine Arts, Art Gallery, July 16-September 17, 1989. Cincinnati, OH: The Museum, 1988. Reproduced: cat. no. 62, p. 15.
Sherman E. Lee, "Chinese Domestic Furniture at the Cleveland Museum, " Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Vol. 2, number 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 68–70. Reproduced: fig. 1, p. 68
Exhibition history

China in 1700: Kangxi Porcelains at the Taft Museum. Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (September 8-October 23, 1988); Flint Institute of Arts in the DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI (April 15-June 10, 1989); Ball State University, College of Fine Arts, Art Gallery, Muncie, IN (July 16-September 17, 1989).

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