Chinese Kitchen Cabinet with 6 Doors

Another grid-fronted cabinet, this one with an open middle shelf and weathered brown wood.

This kitchen cabinet with 6 doors is from Hebei Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is pine wood. 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. Cabinet with an open upper niche and four lattice doors above. Side doors flank an open shelf with a lower shelf visible. The surface is muted brown and rubbed. Short block feet hold it. It is 62.25 inches long, 18 deep and 69.25 high.

Half cabinet, half cubby, entirely practical.