Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern The name 'Yoke-Back' chair comes

The name 'Yoke-Back' chair comes from the curved top rail seen on this timeless Chinese design

Like our ceramic stool

Chinese herbalists have used chests

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

Ming Bookshelf, Black Lacquer Lantern The name 'Yoke-Back' chair comesMade 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