Tibetan Furniture
Identifying · Appreciating · Collecting
Chris Buckley
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This is a unique time in the history of Tibetan furniture, and this is the only comprehensive book on the subject.
Tibetans value their painted furniture highly, but their reverence of antiquities for their own sake is not particularly strong. As a result, antique Tibetan furniture is more highly valued outside Tibet than it is within, and it is becoming increasingly popular among Western collectors.
Contacts with peoples all over Asia can be traced in the designs found on Tibetan furniture, recording a rich history of cultural and trading exchange. In recent centuries, the dominant artistic and cultural force has been China. Yet despite this influence, Tibetan artisans rarely copied designs precisely; rather they adapted and modified the motifs and the decorative style they saw to suit their own ends and to reflect their Tantric Buddhist outlook, so that Tibetan furniture cannot be mistaken or confused with work from other cultures.
Readers will learn to:
• Identify the main types of Tibetan furniture
• Appreciate their origin and their uses
• Identify and understand common designs
• Judge quality
• Derive increased pleasure from Tibetan furniture they have bought
Chris Buckley was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and at Wolfson College, Oxford. He now lives in Beijing, where he is well-known as a speaker on antiques and collecting, and especially on the relatively new study of Tibetan furniture.
Also of interest:
Art of Tibet
Chinese Art |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500512779 | | ISBN-13 978-0500512777 | | | | 28.0 x 21.5 cm | | Hardback | | 240pp | | With over 200 colour illustrations | | First published 2005 | | | | £35.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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