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Offering Table with a Cloud-Form Apron17th-18th century

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Unknown
Title: Offering Table with a Cloud-Form Apron
Place Made: Tibet
Date Made: 17th-18th century
Medium: Wood with mineral pigments
Dimensions: 17 1/2 x 45 x 15 1/2 in. (44.45 x 114.3 x 39.37 cm)
Credit Line: 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
Accession Number: M.2010.78.7
Classification: Furnishings
Collecting Area: South and Southeast Asian Art
Curatorial Notes: 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.