Chinese Buddhist Temple Cabinet: 4 Doors, 8 Drawers (4 Interior) 2 Compartments

Four tall doors, a carved frieze and one lonely drawer, all dressed in black.

This Buddhist temple cabinet is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered elm wood. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. Tall black wardrobe with four framed panel doors, a row of three carved medallions along the top, and a small central drawer between open side compartments below. It stands on long straight legs under a modest cornice. It is 56 inches long, 24.5 deep and 89.5 high.

Formal, upright and ready for a very tall suit.