Short Backed Southern Officials Hat Armchair - 19th Century Material - Cedar Wood Best used with tea lights

Best used with tea lights

deep relief carving

This iconic Japanese style stone snow lantern is hand carved

28 x 9 x 16 (wxdxh cms)

15 x 20 x 25 (wxdxh cms)

Short Backed Southern Officials Hat Armchair - 19th Century Material - Cedar Wood Best used with tea lightsThis antique Chinese armchair is from Shanxi. This style of chair is called a Southern officials hat chair or writing chair. They were regularly used by poets, painters & scholars. The style originated in Jiangsu in central China and spread northwards, hence the usage of the term 'southern'. They are usually made from elm (yumu) or red elm (jumu), but examples made in walnut are also found in North China. This particular chair is made from walnut with