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CHEFFONIER , properly CHIFFONIER, a piece of See also:furniture differentiated from the See also:sideboard by its smaller See also:size and by the enclosure of the whole of the front by doors. Its name (which comes from the See also:French for a rag-gatherer) suggests that it was originally intended as a receptacle for odds and ends which had no See also:place elsewhere, but it now usually serves the purpose of a sideboard. It is a remote and illegitimate descendant of the See also:cabinet; it has rarely been elegant and never beautiful. It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed See also:taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the See also:Empire See also:period in See also:England. The earliest cheffoniers date from that See also:time; they are usually of rosewood—the favourite See also:timber of that moment; their " furniture " (the technical name for knobs, handles and escutcheons) was most commonly of See also:brass, and there was very often a raised shelf with a pierced brass See also:gallery at the back. The doors were well panelled and often edged with brass-beading, while the feet were pads or claws, or, in the choicer examples, sphinxes in gilded See also:bronze. Cheffoniers are still made in England in cheap forms and in See also:great number. CHEH-KIANG, an eastern See also:province of See also:China, bounded N. by the province of Kiang-su, E. by the See also:sea, S. by the province of Fu-kien, and W. by the provinces of Kiang-si and Ngan-hui. It occupies an See also:area of about 36,000 sq. m., and contains a See also:population of 11,800,000. With the exception of a small portion of the great See also:delta See also:plain, which extends across the frontier from the province of Kiang-su, and in which are situated the famous cities of Hu Chow, Ka-hing, Hang-chow, Shao-Sing and Ning-po, the province forms a portion of the Nan-shan of See also:south-eastern China, and is hilly throughout. The Nan-shan ranges run through the centre of the province from south-See also:west to See also:north-See also:east, and See also:divide it into a See also:northern portion, the greater See also:part of which is drained by the Tsien-tang-kiang, and a See also:southern portion which is chiefly occupied by the Ta-chi See also:basin. The valleys enclosed between the See also:mountain ranges are numerous, fertile, and for the most part of exquisite beauty. The hilly portion of the province furnishes large supplies of See also:tea, and in the plain which extends along the See also:coast, north of Ning-po, a great quantity of See also:silk is produced. In minerals the province is poor. See also:Coal and See also:iron are occasionally met with, and traces of See also:copper ore are to be found in places, but none of these minerals exists in sufficiently large deposits to make See also:mining remunerative. The province, however, produces See also:cotton, See also:rice, ground-nuts, See also:wheat, See also:indigo, See also:tallow and beans in abundance. The See also:principal cities are Hang-chow, which is famed for the beauty of its surroundings, Ning-po, which has been frequented by See also:foreign See also:ships ever since the Portuguese visited it in the 16th See also:century, and Wenchow. Opposite Ning-po, at a distance of about 50 m., lies the See also:island of See also:Chusan, the largest of a See also:group bearing that See also:general name. This island is n m. See also:long, and about 50 M. in circumference. It is very mountainous, and is surrounded by numerous islands and islets. On its south See also:side stands the walled See also:town of Ting-See also:hai, in front of which is the principal See also:harbour. The population is returned as 50,000. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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