Chinese Console Cabinet with 4 Doors

Low sideboard with four painted landscape doors and two sets of little metal fittings.

This console cabinet with 4 doors is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 20th century. It is lacquered & painted elm 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. Long, low body with four doors, each painted with pale hills, trees and water against a gold-green ground, framed in red. Two metal lock plates sit at the pairs of doors. Short legs have curled feet, and the red edges are worn. It is 50 inches long, 13 deep and 25 high.

The view outside the window, brought indoors and hinged.