Chinese Wood Compound Cabinet: 4 Drawers, 7 Doors & Commemorative Inscription

Pages of painted script crown a cabinet that glows orange below.

This compound cabinet is from Gansu Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & painted pine wood. Collectors generally weigh aesthetics, age, condition, design, origin and provenance when judging antique furniture, though the article argues that scarcity ends up with the greatest influence on value. Evident is a tall cabinet with four tall panels in the upper section covered in script and small painted scenes, over a row of small drawers. Three lower doors in warm orange carry faint painted designs. Edges are dark. It is 80 inches long, 21.5 deep and 104.25 high.

Reads like a book, stores like a cupboard.