Classical Chinese Furniture:
Articles

Chinese Furniture Related Materials are listed by author.
Last update: February 26, 2005.

• Kagiwada, Prof. Tsutomu. "Chinese Ming Furniture." (in Japanese) WACOA 16 (1991).
  
  
• Kahn, H. L. "Living in the Cities, Living on the Farm: Social Dimensions of Ming Culture." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 3:1 (Winter 1992), pp. 9-21.
  
  
• Kates, George N. "Chinese Furniture." (Exhibition Notes) The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin VII:5 (February 1946).
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 2:1 (Winter 1991), pp. 28-60.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Built-In and Movable K'ang." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:10 (May 1950), pp. 20-21.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Chests and Boxes." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 5:3 (October 1950), pp. 32-34.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Cupboards and Shelves" The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:6 (January 1950), pp. 18-19.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Dressers and the Drawer." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:7 (February 1950), pp. 18-20.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Introduction." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:4 (November 1949), pp. 17-18.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Miscellaneous Pieces." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 5:4 (November 1950), pp. 31-33.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: More varieties of Tables." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:9 (April 1950), pp. 18-19.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Tables and Side Tables." The Antique Dealer Kates, George N. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: The Stool." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 5:1 (August 1950), pp. 23-25.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: The Bed and the Couch." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:12 (July 1950), pp. 42-44.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: The Chair." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 5:2 (September 1950), pp. 28-30.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture: Wardrobes and Cupboards." The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide 4:5 (December 1949), pp. 17-19.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Metalwork." The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin (Exhibition notes) 2/11 thru 4/17/49
  
  
• ______. "Far East Influence in Contemporary Decoration." House & Garden, April and Collectors' Guide 4:8 (March 1950) pp. 19-20.
  
  
• ______. "How to Recognize Chinese Household Furniture." House & Garden, April 1949, pp. 110-113, 164.
  
  
• Keppel, Sheila. "The Well-Furnished Tomb, Part 1." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 2:3 (Summer 1992), pp. 13-21.
  
  
• ______. "The Well-Furnished Tomb, Part II." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 3:3 (Summer 1993), pp. 37-49.
  
  
• ______. "The Well-Furnished Tomb, Part III." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 4:2 (Spring 1994), pp. 44-55.
  
  
• Kimura Norimitsu. The Treasures of the Shosoin: Furniture and Interior Furnishings. Kyoto: Shikosha, 1992.
  
  
• Kjaer, Bodil. "Eastern Seating: Everyday Furniture of the People of China." Mobilia 291 (1980), pp. 41-45.
  
  
• Koo, Siu-fung. "The Poetry of Wood." The Connoisseur's Magazine, Summer 1991, pp. 14-25.
  
  
• Knight, Michael. "Chinese Lacquered Wood Furniture: Two Examples from the Collection of Mimi and Raymond Hung." Orientations January 1998, pp. 22-31.
  
  
• Kramer, Henry Piltz. "En Route to the West: Chinese Furniture in Hawaii." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 1:2 (Spring 1991), pp. 66-70.
  
  
• Kreigshauser, John and Lindquist, Nancy. "Woodworkers' Tour of China: Ancient ways persist in the age automation." Fine Woodworking No. 74 (Jan-Feb. 1989), pp. 81-83.
  
  
• Kriegshauser, John. "Review of The Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture by Wang Shixiang." Fine Woodworking No. 98 (January/February 1993), p. 104.
  
  
• Lanciotti, Lionello. "Louise Hawley Stone, The Chair in China." East and West 5 (1954), pp. 7-8.
  
  
• Lawton, Thomas. "Laurence Sickman 1906-1988." Orientations, August 1988, pp. 42-43.
  
  
• Lee, Jean Gordon. "Chinese Furniture." Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, Winter 1963.
  
  
• Lee, Sherman E. "Chinese Domestic Furniture." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 2:4 (Autumn 1992), pp. 68-72.
  
  
• ______. "Chinese Domestic Furniture." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 3 (March 1957), pp. 48-53.
  
  
• Lee, Yu-kuan. Oriental Lacquer Art. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1972.
  
  
• Lim Saw Puay. "The Compleat Collector." Sunday Morning Post Magazine/South China Morning Post 26 May 1991, pp. 14-17.
  
  
• Longsdorf, Ronald. "Bamboo Furniture: Its History and Influence on Hardwood Furniture." Orientations January 1994, pp. 76-83.
  
  
• Lu, Nancy T. "Museum in California promotes scholarship in Chinese furniture." China Post, February 26, 1993, p. 11.
  
  
• ______. "Scholar: Erotic Chinese novel is filled with furniture details." China Post, June 5, 1993.
  
  
• Luo Wuyi. "The Art of Ming Dynasty Furniture," China Reconstructs, vol. XI, no. 5, 1962.
  
  
• ______. "The Art of Ming Dynasty Furniture." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 1:3 (Summer 91), pp. 63-39.
  
  
• Ma Weidu. "Chenmu yongsu de zitan jiaju" (Elegant Zitan Furniture)(in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 21, 1997:1, pp. 24-27.
  
  
• ______. "Mingqing jiaju de wenshi" (The decoration of Ming and Qing furniture) (in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 26, 1997:6, pp. 20-24.
  
  
• ______. "Ming Qing jiaju de caizhi" (The Materials of Ming and Qing Furniture) (in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 18, 1996:4, pp. 22-25.
  
  
• ______. "Fengge jiongyi de jichimu jiju" (The Ranging Styles of Jichimu Furniture)(in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 24, 1997:4, pp. 24-28.
  
  
• ______. "Gu zhuo chun pu de tielimu jiaju" (Thick and Unsophisticated Antique Tielimu Furniture)(in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 25, 1997:5, pp. 20-24.
  
  
• ______. "Xiangzheng shenfen de hongmu jiaju" (Symbolizing Status: Hongmu Furniture)(in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 23, 1997:3, pp. 36-40.
  
  
• ______. "Zhongguo xiangcun jiaju" (China's Country Furniture) (in Chinese). Shoucangjia (Collectors) 9, 1995:1, pp. 8-11.
  
  
• Markbreiter, Michael. "The Grace Wu Bruce Collection of Chinese Furniture." Arts of Asia 17:6 (Nov/Dec 1989), pp. 131-136.
  
  
• Markbreiter, Stephen. "Charlotte Horstman's Ming Furniture." Arts of Asia 1:3 (May/June 1971), pp. 51-57.
  
  
• ______. "Review of Chinese Furniture by Craig Clunas." Arts of Asia 19:4 (July/Aug 1989), pp. 134-136.
  
  
• ______. "The de Santos Collection of Chinese Furniture." Arts of Asia 10:2 (March/April 1980), pp. 106-113.
  
  
• Martin, Ann Ray. "American Mandarin. Robert Ellsworth is the Duveen of Oriental Art." Connoisseur 214:873 (November 1984), pp. 95-101.
  
  
• Mason, Lark. "Behind the Scenes 17." Arts of Asia 19:4 (July/Aug 1989), pp. 120-124.
  
  
• ______. "Examples of Ming Furniture in American Collections Formed Prior to 1980." Orientations 23:1 (January 1992), pp. 74-81.
  
  
• ______. "Questions of Authenticity." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 3:1 (Winter 1992), pp. 46-57.
  
  
• ______. "Understanding Joinery in Chinese Furniture." Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 1:4 (Autumn 1991), pp. 14-23.
  
  
• Medley, Margaret, "A Chinese Folding Chair in the Escorial". Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society 1:2 (Spring 1991), pp. 36-37.
  
  
• ______. "China." Chapter VIII. The Far and Middle East, World Furniture. 1965. London: Hamlyn, 1971, pp. 276-279.
  
  
• ______. "Review of Chinese Furniture by Craig Clunas." Oriental Art XXXV:3 (Autumn 1989), p. 172.
  
  
• ______. "Review of Classic Chinese Furniture by Wang Shixiang." Orientations 17:10 (October 1986), pp. 64-65.
  
  
• ______. "Una silla plegable del siglo XVI en el Monestario de El Escorial." Reales Sitios, XXII:86 (1985), pp. 65-67.
  
  
• Menshikova, Maria. "A Lacquer Table Screen in the Hermitage Museum." Orientations 24:1 (January 1993), pp. 41-44.
  
  
• Moncrieff, Elspeth. "Chinese Hardwood Furniture." The Antique Collector 60:8 (August 1989), pp. 34-41.
  
  
• Moore, Susan. "Talk of the Trade: Seat of Judgment--How English is the English Chair?" Art & Auction XXIII: 1 (July/August 1990), pp. 38, 40.
  
  
• Morris, Edwin T. "Architecture: From the Very Great to the Very Small--Chinese Interiors." The Gardens of China 1983, pp. 201-209.
  
  
• Morse, John D. "Dynasty Furniture." American Artist 19 (May 1955), pp. 40-41, 70-72.
  
  
• Murck, Alfreda & Fong Wen. Chinese Garden Court: The Astor Court at the Metropolitan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, post 1981.
  
  
• Murck, Alfreda. "The Astor Garden Court at the Metropolitan Museum." Orientations January 1981, pp. 24-35.