Stool-Table "Jia Ji"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1996
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum Of American History
notes: label: Notes
content: BOX-LIKE SQUARE TABLE TOP BANDED WITH MEANDERING DESIGN ON A PUNCHWORK GROUND OVER INDENTED BASE WITH UNDULATING, EDGED APRON RESTING ON CABRIOLE LEGS SET ON A SQUARE PLINTH. RED LACQUER SURFACE PROFUSELY INCISED WITH FLOWERS AND GEOMETRIC PATTERNS. TABLE TOP IS DECORATED WITH BIRD-AND-FLOWER DESIGN IN ORANGE, GREEN AND RUSSET. DESCRIBED BY THE NMAH DIVISION OF CULTURAL HISTORY AS "RED LACQUER TABORET TAO QUANG". (TAO-KUANG OR DAOQUANG PERIOD, 1821-1850, ACCORDING TO CHANG-SU HOUCHINS, ASIAN CULTURAL HISTORY PROGRAM, MARCH 27, 1996). ACCORDING TO MS. HOUCHINS, THE STOOL-TABLE IS OFTEN USED AS A SIDE TABLE. PART OF A MATCHING PAIR (SEE CATALOG NUMBER 427402).
label: Notes
content: SEE ACCESSION FOLDER
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416085
label: USNM Number
content: E427401-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Table
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 45 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 71.2 cm