John Rogers: Hi my name is John.
YuQing Zhao: Hi I’m YuQing.
John Rogers: And we’re here to show you a genuinely old tiny piece of furniture
because of heavy usage in China and over the course of the years and
because of more adverse indoor weather conditions and we frequently find
in this country. Here is often a need for a lot of restoration to the
individual pieces of furniture. There are four things that have been stored
here and they’re pretty easy for you to find out once you know what to
look for. They are the doors, the drawer down to the bottom, and top and
this wings right here. YuQing you want to tell us about this?
YuQing Zhao: Sure, okay first of all let’s open the doors. I believe these was the doors
was open originally and now it open like this so I know this part origin
must be at panel and it was cut from here and this foe is originally right
here and it was move over here. In this way, why we do that is they can
open this arms so they can add the shelves inside and they can maximize
of that using of the entire aspects.
John Rogers: And you know that because you can see the spot down here where this
pinch was originally filled in.
YuQing Zhao: These were run to the two spots in the panels so that in this side of course
and the other side too.
John Rogers: And you can also feel up here with your hands the matching pull that was
filled in to the one in the bottom. So that are the great things for you to
check out plus to know what’s been done. You want to tell us about the
drawer YuQing?
YuQing Zhao: Sure, yeah. Let’s open it and this jar me obviously originally this piece is
supposed not to have at your down below and now it hasn’t and I think
this must be no need to add. They added this because it’s inconvenient to
these stuffs from the inside so we have the drawer in there to maximize
that using and making more functional as well.
John Rogers: And you can tell that by looking at the top of the drawer and you can see
the line right along here where the panel originally was and then this
drawer add it also there is now where on run on the slides where the
drawer gets fold out.
YuQing Zhao: And better as you can see was originally I know it was a panel of them.
John Rogers: Correct, correct I would tell you, they really do a terrific job on taking all
furniture and turning it into something that is very, very useful. There are
two more areas that I said for you to talk about the top being one. YuQing
talk to us about this top.
YuQing Zhao: Sure, okay this top to me this is a piece at least a 100 years old they
shouldn’t have a top such flat and smooth filling.
John Rogers: Sure.
YuQing Zhao: So, must be something done on it. They either plain them to make the top
more smooth and flat or what they could do if the top is damaging and
they can just replace the top.
John Rogers: Replace the panel?
YuQing Zhao: The panel and yes the panel not to bring.
John Rogers: Okay and you want to talk with us also about what we have done on the
sides here.
YuQing Zhao: Okay the side that we’re talking about the A print, we called that A print
they are wings. This wing looks small to me and down below I saw some
further marks which giving me a hint that this wing was originally bigger.
Why they cut that off, one thing is they think it’s better with the simple
look or this been was damage a lot on either side or both sides. So they
can make a smaller now and make it simple looking to that.
John Rogers: Cheaper than trying to repair the whole thing. So thanks team these are
some things that you can look for when you’re checking out a nice old
piece of Chinese binocular furniture, that this furniture that we’ve use by
just everyday folks like us. Thanks again.
YuQing Zhao: Thank you.