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    "localId": "132965",
    "label": "Roundback Armchair: Lohan Type",
    "core": "obj",
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}

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    "id": "132965",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Roundback Armchair: Lohan Type",
    "description": "In history, China moved from an original floor culture to high chairs and tables, developing a unique tradition of craftsmanship. Although still relatively unexplored, the manufacturing and styles of furniture differ by region. <br><br>This horseshoe-back armchair was made in Jiangsu province. Its simplicity and minimalist elegance is characteristic of Suzhou-style furniture and aesthetics. The back of the chair is made of seven pieces of wood, joined and secured with an inserted wooden pin, a mortise-tenon technique that appeared in its earliest form in Neolitihic fragments of the Hemudu culture.",
    "date": "1600s–1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.40.1",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80025086"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40.1/1955.40.1_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40.1/1955.40.1_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40.1/1955.40.1_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 85.4 x 58.4 cm (33 5/8 x 23 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to Qing dynasty (1644–1911)"
    ],
    "accession": "1955.40.1"
}

{
    "tec": "Rosewood (huanghuali)",
    "tombstone": "Roundback Armchair: Lohan Type (黃花梨圈椅), 1600s–1700s. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) to Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Rosewood (huanghuali); overall: 85.4 x 58.4 cm (33 5/8 x 23 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1955.40.1",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "黃花梨圈椅",
    "collection": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1955.40"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The horseshoe-shaped back of this chair is joined without glue or nails.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Domestic Furniture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 44, no. 3, 1957, pp. 48–53.",
            "page_number": "Reprodued: p. 50",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142197"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 873",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n155"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 268",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n292"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 268",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n292"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 355",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n375"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ball, Victoria Kloss. <em>Architecture and Interior Design</em>. New York: Wiley, 1980.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 354, fig. 7.23"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield. <em>Chinese Furniture: Hardwood Examples of the Ming and Early Chʼing Dynasties</em>. New Fairfield, CT: Robert H. Ellsworth, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 241, Chair #19; Reproduced: p. 128"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Whiton, Augustus Sherrill, and Stanley Abercrombie.<em> Interior Design &amp; Decoration</em>. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: Fig. 11-11, p. 249"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Stories from Storage.\" <em>The Asian Art Newspaper: Monthly for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries </em>24, i. 5 (May 2021): 6–7.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6–7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Spee, Clarissa von. “Have a Seat! From Floor Culture to Furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasty China.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 14–15.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 14; Mentioned: pp. 14–15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. <em>China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta</em>. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 268–269, no. 123"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.40.1",
    "creditline": "The Norweb Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:50:32.555000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1955.40.1/1955.40.1_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 132965,
    "dept": "Chinese Art",
    "coll": "China - Ming Dynasty",
    "med": "Rosewood (huanghuali)",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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