Chinese Medicine or Apothecary Cabinet

Thirty-four drawers and not one label. Somebody had an excellent memory.

This medicine or apothecary cabinet comes from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is elmwood with a distressed finish. Traditional Chinese pharmacies stored their roots, barks and minerals in banks of small drawers much like these, one remedy to a compartment. Eight rows of four square drawers stack up the front, each with a ring pull and a painted roundel in dark red and black. Two wider drawers sit below, over a shaped apron. Nearly five feet high and 26.75 inches long.

Finding the aspirin is your problem.