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Chinese furniture can be divided into two main types: lacquered wood pieces either inlaid with mother-of-pearl or elaborately carved furniture , the other is plain hardwood pieces furniture . Our main products of Chinese furniture includs kinds of traditional cabinets,screens , tables and other China traditional furniture. |
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Of the first, almost
nothing is known, and dating of pieces is possible only from the
designs of decorative motifs, such as dragons and peonies, and
from their background motifs. The most important |
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historically in
this class are black lacquer pieces inlald with
mother-of-pearl that have been preserved in the imperial
repository(Shoso-in) in Japan from the 8th century.Of
the red lacquers, such as seats and tables, the earliest
pieces date from the Ming dynasty(1368-1644); their
workmanship is characterized by softer contours and
freer, more spirited designs than the later pieces of
the Qin dynasty |
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(1644-1911/12).
These lacquered objects influenced European cabinetmakers. |
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Plain hardwood furniture is
frequently encountered. Its deserved popularity both in China and
the West has been won by its classical simpllcity, reserved ornament,
and lack of pretense. In these products of the finest workmanship,
purity of line, plastic strength, and a flawless polish
produce a harmonious, solid effect.A Chinese house requires
less furniture than a Western house. Correspondingly, the
types of furniture are fewer, being limited mainly to
wardrobes, chests, tables both high and low of all types and
shapes(altar and couch tables, for example), stools,
beds(somtimes testered with curtains), screens and stools for
use by the bed, and chairs. |
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Although the
fundamentals of Chinese joinery must have been formed a
millennium before the modern era, the great development in
Chinese furniture took place with the introduction of Buddhism
from india during the first centuries AD. Before that time the
Chinese had sat cross-legged, or knelt on the floor or on
stools. Buddhism introduced a more format kind of sitting on
stiff, higher chairs with back rests and with or without side
arms. The chests and armoires are superb examples of careful
joinery and often have finely worked metal mounts that greatly
enchance the beauty of their solid design. |
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A number of hardwoods
were used for the plain furniture: purple sandalwood(the most
distinguished); rosewood of many varieties, most imported from
indochina and called "old", "new", and "yellow"; redwood;
burf(especially for inlay); and so-called chicken-wing wood.
Rosewood in its many varieties is perhaps the most frequently
encountered and the most polular for its seeming translucence
and satin, soft finish. It is above all the faultless
workmanship, so typically Chinese, and the fine polish of
Chinese furniture that attacts the Westerner. Its was the
Chinese respect for the spirit of wood and their command of
line, curve, and cublic proporitons that became the ideal of the
18th-century Western cabinetmaker. |
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