Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern there is also space below

there is also space below the shelf for DVD players

but more wealthy merchants would use boxes covered in leather and decorated with fine designs

Whilst later ones tended to be very ornate and heavily carved

Like our ceramic stool

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern there is also space belowMade 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