Chinese Buddhist Temple Cabinet with 3 Drawers & 2 Doors

Dark and tall with paneled doors, wearing its crackled finish proudly.

This Buddhist temple cabinet with 3 drawers & 2 doors is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is carved & 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. Large cabinet in black-brown lacquer with a row of three drawers on top, paneled double doors in a grid of recessed fields, and a lower row of three panels. Scrolled feet curl at the corners; the surface is chipped and crackled. It is 61 inches long, 22 deep and 88 high.

Looks like it kept every secret it was handed.