Stand

Museum number:
9-16451
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3714
Description:
Stand, wooden; large three-legged stand w/ no apparent companion piece, undulating design of 6 segments radiating from central knob - a sort of radiating y-work pattern (see ref. below), ea leg has distal knob. Carved fine-grained wood. China att. C.A.S. Williams (first edition) Outlines of Chinese Symbolism p.102b for illustration of y-work pattern. Ht = 4.25 cm. max d = 11.5 cm.
Donor:
Gladys "Gay" Womack and Robert Womack
Collection place:
China
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Stands (support objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Stand, accession number 9-16451, described as Stand, wooden; large three-legged stand w/ no apparent companion piece, undulating design of 6 segments radiating from central knob - a sort of radiating y-work pattern (see ref. below), ea leg has distal knob. Carved fine-grained wood. China att. C.A.S. Williams (first edition) Outlines of Chinese Symbolism p.102b for illustration of y-work pattern. Ht = 4.25 cm. max d = 11.5 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Stand, accession number 9-16451, described as Stand, wooden; large three-legged stand w/ no apparent companion piece, undulating design of 6 segments radiating from central knob - a sort of radiating y-work pattern (see ref. below), ea leg has distal knob. Carved fine-grained wood. China att. C.A.S. Williams (first edition) Outlines of Chinese Symbolism p.102b for illustration of y-work pattern. Ht = 4.25 cm. max d = 11.5 cm.

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