Chinese Wood Display Cabinet

A temple roof, tiles and all, and under it a place for the good glasses.

This display cabinet comes from China and is contemporary work in lacquered elm wood. Modern cabinets like this borrow the upswept roof of Chinese temple and palace architecture, and are made to display and store a collection of porcelain, glass or books in a home. Here the black roof has carved tiles, a pierced frieze and small beasts at the corners. Four glazed doors open onto glass shelves. Below them sit four columns of six drawers each. The base is carved with overlapping scales and ends in clawed feet. Almost seven and a half feet high and 64 inches long.

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