Chinese Cabinet with 2 Drawers & 2 Doors

Deep red cabinet with dark landscape panels and heavy heavy hinges on the doors.

This cabinet with 2 drawers & 2 doors is from Jiangxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & painted elm 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. Double doors below are glazed in dark panels with faint flowering scenes, framed by thick red rails and large metal hinges. Two drawers across the top with painted flowers and ring pulls. Short legs with cutouts. Crusty, worn red. It is 40 inches long, 23.5 deep and 34 high.

The hinges look strong enough for a castle gate.