Chinese A-Frame Wardrobe with 2 Doors

Tall doors of clearly figured grain, with a slim brass latch down the middle.

This a-frame wardrobe with 2 doors is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the early 19th century. It is 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. Tapered cabinet with two plain doors framed by rounded edges. Reddish brown wood with visible flame grain and a narrow brass fitting at the center. The apron is shaped between short legs. It is 54 inches long, 23.5 deep and 85 high.

Let the grain do the talking.