Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Perfect at the end of

Perfect at the end of a bed for storage and seating

Whilst later ones tended to be very ornate and heavily carved

including the wooden pegs in a diamond shape that help to secure the frames

Chinese style and is made from solid reclaimed elm with dovetail joints and finished on the inside in a light wood stain

Like our ceramic stool

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern Perfect at the end ofMade 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