Offering Table with a Cloud-Form Apron

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Offering Table with a Cloud-Form Apron

Tibet, 17th-18th century
Furnishings; Furniture
Wood with mineral pigments
17 1/2 x 45 x 15 1/2 in. (44.45 x 114.3 x 39.37 cm)
Gift of Ruth Hayward, Ph.D. and Robert Hayward, M.D., in honor of Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan people, art and culture, through the 2010 Collectors Committee (M.2010.78.7)
South and Southeast Asian Art
Not currently on public view

Curator Notes

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This table has a large openwork cloud-form apron as its primary decoration. It is adorned with painted floral design in the center and a half-painted floral design on each end. The table is meant to be placed end-to-end with a mirror-image table, which would then visually complete the half-painted floral designs into a single motif. See David Kamansky, ed., Wooden Wonders: Tibetan Furniture in Secular and Religious Life (Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum and Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2004), pp. 202-203, nos. 26-27.
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