Chinese Cabinet with 2 Doors & Floral Motif

Red cabinet with scattered painted vessels and flowers and a big brass lock plate.

This cabinet with 2 doors & floral motif is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & painted elm 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. Visible is a tall cabinet with two doors in red lacquer, painted with small gold-toned vases, bowls and blossoms. A large square brass plate with ring pulls sits at the center. The paint is worn at edges. It is 31 inches long, 17.5 deep and 57 high.

Little painted treasures, with a very big lock.