Chinese Wardrobe with 2 Doors & Top Trunk

Dark lacquer, small gold hills, and a stack of doors and drawers.

This wardrobe with 2 doors & top trunk is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & painted elm 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. Tall cabinet with a smaller upper section above red-edged drawers and two lower doors with round central plates. Painted village scenes with pagodas and landscape cover the surface, worn in places. Red lacquered feet and apron. It is 44 inches long, 20 deep and 87 high.

Miniature scenery, kept safely behind doors.