A selection of chairs from our gallery. Except for the earlier horseshoe armchair, all date from the late 1800s.
- a black lacquer wedding chair with a carved back splat in northern elm (yumu)
- a red chair from Fujian made of fir (shanmu)
- a tea chair from Hunan in camphor wood (zhangmu) with a nicely carved top rail
- a tea chair also in camphor wood from Hunan but with a plain top rail
- a red lacquer camphorwood chair with carved back and arms from Guangdong
- an arm chair in elm (yumu) from Shanxi
- a folding chair horseshoe armchair from the late 1700s made of Jichimu (genus Ormosa) also known as chicken-wing wood because the rays in the timber resemble bird feathers.
