Chinese Altar Cabinet with 3 Drawers

Wide shallow recess, three small drawers, and a frame of worn red.

This altar cabinet with 3 drawers is from Gansu Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered pine 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. Broad wooden frame in red-brown lacquer with a large recessed panel with a shaped central niche above three small drawers with ring pulls. A scalloped apron runs below, and the feet are short squares. It is 38.5 inches long, 16.5 deep and 36 high.

A built-in stage with a drawer or two for props.