Chinese furniture
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The forms of Chinese furniture evolved along three distinct lineages which date back to 1000 BC: frame and panel, yoke and rack and bamboo construction techniques. Chinese home furniture evolved indep
Ming imperial table in carved lacquer, early 15th century
Canopy bed, late 19th or early 20th century
Furniture made during the Liao dynasty, excavated from the underground palace in Tian Kai Ta, in Fangshan District of Beijing
A yoke-back chair from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rosewood
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Rosewood is any of a number of richly hued hardwoods, often brownish with darker veining, but found in other colours. It is hard, tough, strong, and dense. True rosewoods come from trees of the genus
A classic rosewood surface (Dalbergia nigra)
Chess pieces in Dalbergia latifolia rosewood
A Ming Dynasty rosewood wardrobe, 16th century.
Back of guitar made with East Indian rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia)