1.   Antique Chinese furniture is made without nails, and this chair comes apart to the extent that it folds flat enough to carry under your arm.

2.   Also fascinating are the rooms of Chinese furniture set in vignettes.

3.   Coincidentally, the Lipton show comes at a time when there is growing international interest in Chinese furniture.

4.   Chinese furniture made for villagers a century or more ago looks like a simplified version of palace pieces.

5.   Conveniently, nearly all Chinese furniture can be disassembled easily, since construction is primarily mortise and tenon.

6.   Ellsworth is one of the great experts in Chinese art and the author of definitive works on classical Chinese furniture, modern paintings and calligraphy.

7.   Ellsworth said that even museums in China now recognized the importance of Chinese furniture as art.

8.   It signaled the coming of age in the marketplace for Chinese furniture, which had long been overlooked by collectors.

9.   Mason noted that much Chinese furniture was originally lacquered, so you see woods that were intended to be covered.

10.   Much of the antique Chinese furniture now sought by collectors is made from the wood of trees now extinct.