Chinese Cabinet with 3 Drawers & 2 Doors

Red and burgundy cabinet with four diamond-shaped medallions that each hold a gold character.

This cabinet with 3 drawers & 2 doors is from Fujian Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is painted fir 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. Three narrow drawers sit below, over high legs with cutout brackets. Two doors with raised panel frames, each carrying two shaped red cartouches with a gold character. The dark reddish finish is scuffed at the edges. It is 42 inches long, 19.5 deep and 66.5 high.

Short words, big letters, and a tall sense of style.