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Chinese furniture, the Glossary

The forms of Chinese furniture evolved along three distinct lineages which date back to 1000 BC: frame and panel, yoke and rack (based on post-and-rail seen in architecture) and bamboo construction techniques.^[1]

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Agate

Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.

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Andira inermis

Andira inermis is a nitrogen-fixing tree with medicinal properties native to the area from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America (Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil); it has been introduced to the Caribbean, the Antilles, Florida, and Africa and is often pollinated by bees.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Carved lacquer

Carved lacquer or Qidiao is a distinctive Chinese form of decorated lacquerware.

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Carving

Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese art

Chinese art is visual art that originated in or is practiced in China, Greater China or by Chinese artists. Chinese furniture and Chinese art are arts in China.

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Chinese lacquerware table

This carved lacquerware table in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is from the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Dalbergia

Dalbergia is a large genus of small to medium-size trees, shrubs and lianas in the pea family, Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.

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Dalbergia cearensis

Dalbergia cearensis, with common names Brazilian kingwood, kingwood, Bois de Violette, and violetwood, is a small tree endemic to Brazil.

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Dalbergia cochinchinensis

Dalbergia cochinchinensis, the Thailand rosewood, Siamese rosewood, or tracwood, (พะยูง: Phayung; Vietnamese: Trắc (or Cẩm lai nam bộ); Khmer: ក្រញូង: Kranhung; Lao: ກະຍູງ: Kayung; Chinese: 酸枝木: Suān zhī mù) is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.

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Dalbergia granadillo

Dalbergia granadillo, the granadillo (a name it shares with a number of other plants) or zangalicua, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to central and southern Mexico, and El Salvador.

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Dalbergia latifolia

Dalbergia latifolia (synonym Dalbergia emarginata) is a premier timber species, also known as the Indian rosewood (Tamil / தமிழ்: Eetti / ஈட்டி) (Telugu / తెలుగు: Irugudu/ ఇరుగుడు).

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Dalbergia louvelii

Dalbergia louvelii (violet rosewood) is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.

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Dalbergia melanoxylon

Dalbergia melanoxylon (African blackwood, grenadilla, or mpingo) in french Granadille d'Afrique is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to seasonally dry regions of Africa from Senegal east to Eritrea, to southern regions of Tanzania to Mozambique and south to the north-eastern parts of South Africa.

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Dalbergia nigra

Dalbergia nigra, commonly known as the Bahia rosewood, jacarandá-da-Bahia, Brazilian rosewood, Rio rosewood, jacarandá-do-brasil, pianowood, caviúna, graúna, jacarandá-una or obuina is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae.

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Dalbergia odorifera

Dalbergia odorifera, fragrant rosewood or Chinese rosewood, is a species of true rosewood in the genus Dalbergia.

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Dalbergia oliveri

Dalbergia oliveri is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae which grows in tree form to 15 – 30 meters in height (up to 100 ft.). The fruit is a green pod containing one to two seeds which turn brown to black when ripe.

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Dalbergia retusa

Dalbergia retusa (Caviuna, Cocobolo, Cocobolo Prieto, Funeram, Granadillo, Jacarandáholz, Nambar, ñamba, Nicaraguan Rosewood, Palisander, Palissandro, Palo Negro, Pau Preto, Rosewood, Urauna) is a plant species in the genus Dalbergia found in Pacific regions of Central America, ranging from Panama to southwestern Mexico.

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Dalbergia stevensonii

Dalbergia stevensonii, also called Honduras rosewood, is a Central American tree species in the legume family.

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Diospyros

Diospyros is a genus of over 700 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs.

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Diospyros blancoi

Diospyros blancoi, (synonym Diospyros discolor), commonly known as velvet apple, velvet persimmon, kamagong, or mabolo tree, is a tree of the genus Diospyros of ebony trees and persimmons.

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Diospyros celebica

Diospyros celebica (commonly known as black ebony or Makassar ebony) is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Diospyros crassiflora

Diospyros crassiflora, commonly known as Gaboon ebony, African ebony, Cameroon ebony, Nigeria ebony, West African ebony, and Benin ebony is a species of lowland-rainforest tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to Western Africa.

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Diospyros ebenum

Ceylon ebony or Diospyros ebenum (කළුවර Kaluwara) (Tamil: கருங்காலி Karungaali), is a species of tree in the genus Diospyros and the family Ebenaceae.

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Diospyros melanoxylon

Diospyros melanoxylon, the Coromandel ebony or East Indian ebony, is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae native to India and Sri Lanka; it has a hard, dry bark.

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Diospyros pilosanthera

Diospyros pilosanthera is a tree in the family Ebenaceae.

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Eastern Zhou

The Eastern Zhou (Chinese: 东周; pinyin: Dōngzhōu; Wade–Giles: Tung1 Chou1; c. 771 – 256 BC) is a period in Chinese history comprising the latter half of the Zhou dynasty following the Zhou capital's relocation eastward to Chengzhou, near present-day Luoyang.

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Ebony

Ebony is a dense black/brown hardwood, coming from several species in the genus Diospyros, which also includes the persimmon tree.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Fangshan, Beijing

Fangshan District is a district of the city of Beijing.

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Frame and panel

Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes.

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Furniture

Furniture refers to objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, working, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks).

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.

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Gustav Ecke

Gustav Emil Wilhelm Ecke (13 June 1896 – 17 December 1971) was a German and later American historian of art best known for his book Chinese Domestic Furniture, first published in wartime China in 1944. Chinese furniture and Gustav Ecke are history of furniture.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Hans Wegner

Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 – January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer.

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Imbralyx leucanthus

Millettia leucantha or sathon is a species of plant in the legume family, Fabaceae.

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Inlay

Inlay covers a range of techniques in sculpture and the decorative arts for inserting pieces of contrasting, often colored materials into depressions in a base object to form ornament or pictures that normally are flush with the matrix.

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Jade

Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or ornaments.

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Jiangsu

Jiangsu is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Joinery

Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes (such as laminate), to produce more complex items.

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Lacquer

Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.

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Lacquerware

Lacquerware are objects decoratively covered with lacquer.

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Lingnan

Lingnan is a geographic area referring to the lands in the south of the Nanling Mountains.

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Mesua ferrea

Mesua ferrea, the Ceylon ironwood, or cobra saffron, is a species in the family Calophyllaceae native to the Indomalayan realm.

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Millettia

Millettia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae.

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Millettia laurentii

Millettia laurentii is a legume tree from Africa and is native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mortise and tenon

A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.

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Nacre

Nacre, also known as mother of pearl, is an organicinorganic composite material produced by some molluscs as an inner shell layer.

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Openwork

Openwork or open-work is a term in art history, architecture and related fields for any technique that produces decoration by creating holes, piercings, or gaps that go right through a solid material such as metal, wood, stone, pottery, cloth, leather, or ivory.

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Ormosia hosiei

Ormosia hosiei is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

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Overlogging

Overlogging is a form of overexploitation caused by legal or illegal logging activities that lead to unsustainable or irrecoverable deforestation and permanent habitat destruction for forest wildlife.

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Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online is an Oxford University Press online gateway into art research, which was launched in 2008.

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Pterocarpus

Pterocarpus is a pantropical tree genus in the Fabaceae family.

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Pterocarpus cambodianus

Pterocarpus cambodianus is a taxonomic synonym of Pterocarpus macrocarpus that may refer to.

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Pterocarpus dalbergioides

Pterocarpus dalbergioides, the Andaman padauk, Andaman redwood or East Indian mahogany, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae.

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Pterocarpus erinaceus

Pterocarpus erinaceus is an endangered tree species native to the Sahelian region of West Africa.

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Pterocarpus indicus

Pterocarpus indicus (commonly known as Amboyna wood, Malay padauk, Papua New Guinea rosewood, Philippine mahogany, Andaman redwood, Burmese rosewood, narra (from Tagalog) and asana in the Philippines, angsana, or Pashu padauk) is a species of Pterocarpus native to southeastern Asia, northern Australasia, and the western Pacific Ocean islands, in Cambodia, southernmost China, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Pterocarpus macrocarpus

Pterocarpus macrocarpus, or Burma padauk, is a tree native to the seasonal tropical forests of southeastern Asia: in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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Pterocarpus marsupium

Pterocarpus marsupium, also known as Malabar kino or Indian kino, is a medium-to-large, deciduous tree that can grow up to tall.

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Pterocarpus pedatus

Pterocarpus pedatus is a taxonomic synonym of Pterocarpus macrocarpus that may refer to.

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Pterocarpus santalinus

Pterocarpus santalinus, with the common names red sanders, red saunders, Yerra Chandanam, Chenchandanam, red sandalwood, Rakta Chandana, and rakto chandon, is a species of Pterocarpus endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range of South India.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Rococo

Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_furniture

Also known as Chinese antique furniture, Chinese chair.

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