Chinese Blanket Cabinet with 3 Drawers & 4 Doors

Red display cabinet with a giant round window where the doors should be.

This blanket cabinet with 3 drawers & 4 doors is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is elm wood. As original period furniture became harder to find, restoration artists began salvaging fragments from incomplete pieces to make complete ones, and eventually full reproductions began to surface. Below, a base with small doors on each side and a carved drawer panel in the center. Tall box with a large circular opening framed in carved fretwork and corner scrolls, revealing a dark interior with a cross divider. Bright red, polished. It is 50 inches long, 17 deep and 67 high.

The whole front is a porthole, and it works.