Hi! My name is John, I’m sorry YuQing is not with us today. You have been wonderful in your
responds to our series of vides in Chinese antique furniture. You have given us more questions
that suggest hundreds of additional videos, obviously we remember on that so we are going to
take some of the most basic questions that you’ve asked and try to provide adequate responses to
your questions. The first question was, could we give you some better idea of the various types
of Chinese furniture that was use by everyday people that is available in this country today for
use in your home. That’s the purpose of today’s overview.
There are many different types of furniture that are available to fit in to the modern household.
Look at these two tables, they are both cone tables. This table act its original height commonly
use for dining or for playing cards or for whatever. This starts the off life the same height as this
table but was cut down to make it coffee table on us. Different uses for the same type of
furniture, this piece over here is typical of the large buffets very available on China. They are
large, very big but wonderful for storage, kids toys, locker cabinets that sort of thing. They are
also a tremendous number of different plans of binges in China some short, some long, some of
the bamboo tops, some highly decorated they make terrific coffee tables as well as good places
to take off shoes and entry ways and so forth.
This one other thing that I really want to show and to demonstrate here because I think this room
doesn’t best and that is architectural fragments. This happen to be architectural fragments from a
destroy bridge, what has China builds it tends to destroy many original houses and replace them,
enhance if you have doors and windows, different kinds of doors architectural fragments and
more windows that are frequently available and very beautiful and beautiful decoration to the
modern house. One last thing before we leave, there are many tables and there are many chests
of various sizes which are also very abdicable, useable and fit in beautifully with the American
big horror. Everyone is heard of Chinese herbal medicine, the herbs and roots use in the
medicine are cut in passive courage chest, I find this very interesting because they’re
compartmentalize doors, they’re many drawers for the various kind of doors and let’s take to
look at one of them.
Here you can see this drawer and all of the other in this particular chest are divided into four
compartments and the names of what would go in with each compartment are shown in the front
of each drawer. This is the same thing except you can see the compartments but the name are
gone from the front. Earlier we spoke about architectural fragments and these are some car
ceiling fragments that we’re again rescued from house schedule for demolition. This is a brush
spot, brush pot for calligraphy brushes, incredibly made out of our hallow tree. And this is a
Chinese hot box which is made a bent wood and paper the particular paper lining here has a great
deal. Many different chases available of various in some sizes in china I’ve selected here two
examples of a very frequently found chase called Mongolian Plate Chase. If most frequently
come from Inner Mongolia or other province and it characterize by two drawers on the top over
two doors. Frequently as in these cases there is paint on the drawer fronts and the drawer’s fronts
are painted. I also wanted to show you an example of a table screen; this is a two part screen,
screen that sets in the base it does come in much larger varieties but this is a table top one and is
picture on the front of this trail which is we discuss in one of our earlier videos. And over here is
a trials close rug and if you take this out about five times you have an adult called rock and the
costume was to put close over the top of drill. This concludes our videos on the various types of
Chinese furniture that’s available; it’s a real simple overview. If you want to see more and you
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Thank you so much for watching.
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