The painted and lacquered furniture from Mongolia.
The Mongolian furniture in this section date from the early part of the 19thC upto the early 20thC.
Since the 15thC the Mongolians were great patrons of Tibetan Buddhism.They even introduced members of thier own panthion of gods into the Tibetan order of things. BegTse being one major example.
It should be no surprise then , that a lot of the symbolism, contained with in Tibetan furniture ,can be found in the painting of mongolian furniture. Bats , Tigers, Mongoose, are all commonly occuring symbols.
For a brief introduction to the symbolism ,take look at our Tibetan furniture page .
Mongolian furniture does not however stick to the strick furniture types that Tibetan furniture does .
The one thing that mongolian furniture does not have in common with tibetan furniture is it relative cost . Much less valued at prsent , Mongolian furniture represents great value, i feel sure it will not be too long before this changes .
It is increasingly rare to find furniture from Mongolia that we could reasonably say was made for low level use in a nomadic tent( Ger) environment.However anyone who has seen film about the large numbers of Mongolian hurdsmen that opperate from a home base for part of the year, and tent dwelling for the summer months will be formiliar with much of the furniture in the following pages.
The kitchen is an important part of any mongolian house or Ger.Kitchen cabinets with drawers and cupboards, storage trunks for clothes, altar fronts and tables for prayer, shrine cabinets, low tea tables are all day to day pieces of furniture in a mongolian household. The pieces in the following pages are part of our extensive stock of Mongolian furniture