Chinese Cabinet with 2 Doors & Hidden Compartment

Scrubbed, stormy red finish, one lonely lock plate, and a tall frame to carry them.

This cabinet with 2 doors & hidden compartment is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered elm wood. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. Plain two-door body with flat panels, small metal plate at the center seam and a lower rail below. Straight legs with a shallow cutout keep it off the floor. The deep red coat is streaked, dark and mottled with age. It is 49 inches long, 19.75 deep and 69.25 high.

Plain-spoken, tall, and undeterred by a few scratches.