Classic Chinese furniture: Ming and early Qing dynasties

by Wang Shixiang

From front "Classic Chinese Furniture is the crowning achievement of China's leading contemporary scholar and collector in the field, Wang Shixiang. This volume represents the culmination of over forty years of intense and dedicated research by the author. This definitive work, the first by a Chinese author on Chinese furniture, illustrates one hundred and sixty-two pieces from all over China, selected by the author with a rigorous regard to quality and to a more complete coverage of Chinese furniture's many forms than has been published previously...As well as being richly illustrated with photographs of important pieces, Classic Chinese Furniture contains over 50 line drawings and comprehensive essays on the origins, development, use, materials and contemporary significance of the craft of furniture making."

327 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1988