Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings

Chinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured DrawingsWesterners have long admired Chinese furniture for its durability, inner strength, quiet restraint, and simple dignity. Especially attractive to the educated eye are its purity of line, devotion to detail, and flawless construction. This unabridged reprint of a rare classic provides lovers of Chinese furniture with an enlightened discussion of the accomplishments achieved by fine craftsmen over the centuries, including the aesthetic levels attained

child growing

with many reproductions of tomb and mummy-case paintings

ancient tales

books on scannings

For almost half a century

The adjectives used to describe his writing — and character — tend to have a rather uncomplimentary ring: "venomous

differential calculus

treasure hunter

books on moslems

elizabethan

Readers will also find legends of the gods and patron saints of horses

Organized alphabetically