Results found with the tag 'Furniture' , 48 articles in total.
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Chinese furniture: Bamboo-style Construction
'Bamboo-style' furniture employs rounded, bamboo-like members that are configured to simulate the wrap-around and layered construction techniques of furniture made from real bamboo.
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Chinese furniture: Platforms
Low platforms, which were used as honorific seats, were the earliest type of raised seating furniture to appear in China. Sitting platforms were called ta; the relatively longer chuang was used b
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Chinese furniture: Corner Leg Construction
Corner-leg construction can be divided into 'waisted' and 'simianping' (literally flush-sided) styles. The corner-leg form is self-descriptive with legs generally set flush to the corners of the
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Chinese furniture: Recessed-leg Construction
The practical and minimalistic 'recessed-leg' form was established by the Song dynasty and continued to be reproduced throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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Chinese furniture: Frame-and-panel Construction
The 'frame-and-panel' evolved as a more efficient use of material, and is typical of most panels in Chinese furniture, whether tabletop, door, or cabinet panel.
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Chinese furniture: Joinery & Construction
Understanding joinery and construction further enhances the connoisseurship of Chinese hardwood furniture.
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Chinese furniture: Woven Cane
Soft, woven seats were traditional to Ming and early Qing furniture, although the use of hard seat panels is occasionally noted in early examples.
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Chinese furniture: Paktong
Paktong, or baitong hardware was commonly used for reinforcement and decoration.
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Chinese Furniture:Decorative Stone
Decorative stone was used as a secondary material for table top panels, decorative inlay panels, and impressionistic screen panels.
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Chinese furniture: Zitan紫檀木
Zitan is an extremely dense wood which sinks in water. It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified in the Pterocarpus genus.
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Chinese furniture: Tieli wood
Tieli wood is often confused with jichimu, yet lacks the latter's contrasting colors.
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Chinese furniture: Ebony (Wumu)
Wumu, or ebony, is botanically related to the Ebenacea family. It has a fine closed grain which is very brittle, and the color can be pure black to black and brown.
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Jichimu furniture
Jichimu, literally translated as 'chicken-wing wood', describes a wood whose deep brown and gray patterns when cut tangentially resemble the patterns of bird feathers.
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Huanghuali furniture
The Chinese term huanghuali literally means "yellow flowering pear" wood. It is a member of the rosewood family and is botanically classified as Dalbergia odorifera.
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Hongmu furniture
The equivalent southern Chinese term 'suanzhi' appears during the middle Qing period.Most of the dark heavily carved Qing period furniture is made from hongmu.
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Zhazhen furniture
Commonly termed zhazhen or zhajing, this furniture-making wood is associated with the mulberry species.
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Yumu (Northern Elm) furniture
Northern Elm is the most common furniture-making wood found throughout northern China. It is referred to throughout the catalogue as Northern Elm to differentiate it from the somewhat similar app
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Walnut (Hetao) furniture
Walnut was used for many examples of Qing period furniture sourced from the Shanxi region, which generally demonstrate refined workmanship; earlier pieces are extremely rare.
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Oak (Zuomu, Gaolimu) furniture
Although furniture made from oak is somewhat rare, the material has long been known as an excellent furniture-making wood.
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Nanmu furniture
Nanmu and nanmu burl (douban nan) were frequently mentioned as materials par excellence in Ming literati writings. The former was often used for cabinet construction; the latter, for decorative c
