Ming Furniture Ltd. has been located in New
York, NY for over 20 years. Our gallery specializes in the sale of
museum quality Chinese hardwood and lacquer furniture from the Ming and
early Qing dynasties, circa 1500-1775. Over twenty (20) outstanding and
unique masterpieces from our holdings, primarily in the highly prized
huanghuali and zitan hardwoods, have been sold to and can now be found
in important museum collections of Chinese furniture and art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Detroit Institute of Arts;
the Guanfu Museum, Beijing, and the former Museum of Classical Chinese
Furniture in Renaissance, California. The exhibits now available for
sale at our gallery bear testimony to their high level of perfection
obtained by Ming craftsmen in fashioning quality hardwoods into
functional and beautiful pieces.
The historical study in recent years by scholars of excavated
material in China attests to a sophisticated tradition of furniture as
early as the fourth century, B.C. Although few ancient examples have
survived, contemporaneous texts show that social customs and economic
prosperity greatly influenced the refinement and development of one of
the world’s major furniture traditions, culminating in what is
considered the golden age of classic Chinese furniture of the Ming and
early Qing dynasties, circa 1500-1775. Since 1987, Ming Furniture Ltd.
has witnessed a growing interest in Chinese furniture from museums as
well as discerning private collectors. The availability of study
material in institutional and private collections and the publication
of research by scholars such as Dr. Sarah Handler, Dr. Craig Clunes,
Dr. Nancy Berliner, and Wang Shixiang have stimulated this process.
Ming Furniture Ltd. is available to consult and advise both
institutional and private collectors in all matters pertaining to the
sale, purchase, restoration, and appraisal of furniture from this great
art form.
telephone: 212-734-9524
e-mail: mingfurnitureltd@yahoo.com |
