Chinese Wood Compound Cabinet

Carved scrolling panels cover every door of this tall, two-tier cabinet.

This compound cabinet is from Hebei Province, China, and dates to the mid 19th century. It is rose wood. As original period furniture became harder to find, restoration artists began salvaging fragments from incomplete pieces to make complete ones, and eventually full reproductions began to surface. Upper and lower pairs of doors carved with dense scrollwork and round medallions, in reddish brown wood. Bright metal hinges and lock plates stand out. Three carved drawer fronts sit beneath above a shaped apron. It is 59.5 inches long, 19.25 deep and 104.5 high.

Barely a plain inch, and proudly so.