Chinese Money Cabinet with 8 Drawers & 1 Door

Vivid red lacquer chest with eight small drawers and a lifting lid above.

This money cabinet with 8 drawers & 1 door 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. Red cabinet with a top compartment fronted by a hinged flap with a hook, above two columns of four drawers with round pulls. Short feet curve inward at the base. The lacquer is glossy with light scuffs. It is 31 inches long, 16 deep and 35 high.

Bright, orderly and very sure of its filing.