Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Chinese style and is made

Chinese style and is made from solid reclaimed elm with dovetail joints and finished on the inside in a light wood stain

Chinese herbalists have used chests

but more wealthy merchants would use boxes covered in leather and decorated with fine designs

Like our ceramic stool

extended top and other beautiful detailing of our Contemporary Asian furniture range

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Chinese style and is madeMade from solid elm, our black lacquer bookshelf is designed so the middle shelf houses two shallow drawers with brass handles for extra storage. Bookshelves were used by the ancient Chinese scholarly classes, but unlike in the west, they preferred to stack books on the shelves rather than have them stood upright. Shelves therefore tended to be deeper than their western equivalent. This reproduction version is therefore a little narrower than the