Author: Berliner, Nancy et al.
Title: Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Description: Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996. Paperback. glossy pictorial wrappers w/ black printing. 158 pgs w/ color & bw illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition of more than 30 pieces of Chinese furniture. Essays: Furnishing the Self in Early Modern China / Craig Clunas -- Wood Shaped and Standing through the Winds of Time: The Evolution of Chinese Furniture / Sarah Handler -- The Furniture Maker and the Woodworking Traditions of China / Curtis Evarts -- Conjectures on Models of Ming-Period Furniture Excavated fromt eh Pan Yunzheng Tomb in Shanghai / Wang Zhengshu -- One Ming Gentleman's Notions on Room Order: Selection from Zhang Wu Zhi: A Treatise on Superfluous Things / Wen Zhenheng. VG (Light shelf/edgewear to wraps; interior is clean; binding is solid.) .

Keywords: Asian Decorative Arts ; Chinese Furniture ; ; Furniture - Asian


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