Chinese Buddhist Altar Cabinet with 2 Drawers and Full Carving

Tiny stacked chest with carved scroll doors on bulbous cabriole-like legs.

This Buddhist ALTAR cabinet WITH 2 drawers AND FULL carving is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the mid 18th century. It is elm wood. Once China slowly opened to visiting diplomats and businessmen, a trickle of antique furniture leaving the country became a flood that lasted through the 1980s, the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Small chest on a deep carved apron with scrolling relief. The upper block has four panels carved with scrolls and a flat top. The curved legs end in rounded, slightly flared feet. Warm reddish wood. It is 32.25 inches long, 26.75 deep and 36.5 high.

Small, round-bellied, and carved from top to bottom.