Chinese Wardrobe Cabinet with 2 Doors

Gold-painted panels on dark red doors, with a lucky character stamp across the base.

This wardrobe cabinet with 2 doors is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 18th century. It is lacquered, painted & gilded elm wood. Collectors generally weigh aesthetics, age, condition, design, origin and provenance when judging antique furniture, though the article argues that scarcity ends up with the greatest influence on value. The form is a tall cabinet with two doors in dark red and black, decorated with gilded flowers inside shaped panels. A key-fret border frames the doors, and the lower band shows round painted characters. Legs are cut with arches. It is 46.75 inches long, 22 deep and 72.5 high.

Dark and decorative, with gold in all the right places.