Chinese Console Cabinet with 4 Doors

Red panels, green borders, and flowers carved at every corner of a low cabinet.

This console cabinet with 4 doors 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. Long low cabinet with four red panels in a green-painted frame. Relief carved blossoms and leaves in green and pink decorate the borders. The paint is chipped and thin in places, and the legs are short and plain. It is 94.5 inches long, 21 deep and 36 high.

Cheerful color, no regrets, a few scrapes.