Chinese Wardrobe with 4 Drawers and 4 Doors

Glossy black wardrobe with silver-painted branches drifting across its door panels.

This wardrobe with 4 drawers and 4 doors is from Fujian Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered fir wood. Once China slowly opened to visiting diplomats and businessmen, a trickle of antique furniture leaving the country became a flood that lasted through the 1980s, the 1990s and into the early 2000s. Four tall paneled doors decorated in pale metallic tones with branching plants and flowers. Shaped moldings frame each panel. A plain lower rail and slim legs finish the piece. High-gloss, near-black coat. It is 56 inches long, 21 deep and 76 high.

Dark, shiny and very good with a paintbrush.