Chinese Coffer with 3 Drawers & 3 Doors

Three painted panels, one landscape, one flowers, glow orange in a red sideboard.

This coffer with 3 drawers & 3 doors is from Gansu Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & painted poplar. 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. Here is a long red cabinet with three drawers above three doors. Each door holds a painted scene in an orange border, including a flowering plant in the center. The legs are square, with a gently shaped apron. It is 86 inches long, 19.5 deep and 40 high.

Three little pictures, each with its own bright frame.