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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 398015, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome, Asiantiquer.</p><p>Wonderful chair, but not in an auctioneers wildest dreams Tibetan. But you already have your answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>With Tibetan furniture the focus is not on carving but on colour. Traditionally Tibetans don&#039;t sit in armchairs, but on small stools or benches. The furniture is mostly cabinets, chests, low tables and altars.</p><p>What you see on the market now is almost all recently made and painted in garish colours.</p><p>In the past some armchairs were imported from India and China, and now they are being made for hotels and other tourist accomodation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tibetan house interiors:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FA7XKCY%2Ftibetan-house-interior-zhongdian-deqin-tibetan-autonomous-prefecture-A7XKCY.jpg&amp;sp=d9c043ed63adc85350be2835d1710b2e" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Modern Tibetan, with television etc, and a Chinese coffeetable. The central cooking hub is still visible on the lower left:</p><p><img src="https://www.devtard.com/assets/upload/2018/2/pictures-of-chinese-people-56-ethnic-groups-page-8.php" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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