A RE-EVALUATION OF WOODS USED IN CHINESE HISTORIC FURNITURE (PART TWO)

This second article discusses popular Chinese historic furniture woods relatively unfamiliar to the non-Asian collection. In this discussion, woods will be called by Chinese names accompanied by Latinate or English names observing macroscopic features. This second part presents eleven prize woods used in Chinese regional furniture which are observed macroscopically, eight other secondary woods as encountered in Chinese historic furniture and a list of fifteen woods occasionally found in Chinese regional furniture.