Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Like our ceramic stool

Like our ceramic stool

Whilst later ones tended to be very ornate and heavily carved

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

Note that each vase is individual and so may vary slightly from the example shown here

there is also space below the shelf for DVD players

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Like our ceramic stoolMade 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