Chinese Double Cabinet with 4 Doors

Red lacquer in two stacked cabinets, each with a round brass lock plate.

This double cabinet with 4 doors is from China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered elm 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. Tall narrow cabinet with two sections, each with a pair of doors in worn red lacquer. A round dark metal plate sits at the center of each section. The edges and corners show scraped patches where the red has faded to brown. It is 31.25 inches long, 18.5 deep and 74 high.

Weathered, tall and very dignified about the scratches.