Chinese Cabinet with 4 Doors & Double Happiness Motif

Four doors carved in shaped medallions, each holding a faded painted symbol.

This cabinet with 4 doors & double happiness motif is from Gansu Province, China, and dates to the mid 18th century. It is lacquered & painted pine 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. Squat cabinet with four doors, each framed in a rounded carved panel painted with faded red, green and black symbols. The finish is light and worn, with an edged top and short legs. It is 39 inches long, 17.5 deep and 37 high.

Four little cartouches, each wearing its paint lightly.