How to identify south, southeast Asian furniture?

Dialanche will still encounter the same problems. So many cultures and styles. He underestimates the vastness of S and SE Asia and the huge number of cultures, each with their own styles.

For instance, the Jaipur site in the link is just modern inlaid furniture from Jaipur, Rajasthan, NW India. You will find other styles in Jaipur and even more in the other cities and in rural Rajasthan. And that is just Rajasthan, which admittedly is an important export region, so it is a start.