Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19thC Table Lamp yet effective shelves are great

yet effective shelves are great for use as a bookshelf or as a room partition in a living room

103 x 5 x 195 (wxdxh cms)

This decorative piece is made up of old Indian textile printing blocks

These glass lamps are known in India as Handis or Hundis named after a cooking pot

Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19thC Table Lamp yet effective shelves are greatAn exceptionally good quality Chinese Wedding Cabinet from Shanxi with painted scenes of idyllic home life. Many beautifully painted lucky symbols on this piece, including an elephant, tiger & monkey. Illustrating part of a classical poem perhaps. Lacquer cabinets were often given as wedding gifts usually in pairs, better quality cabinets were made from Elm. Lacquer has a long history in Chinese furniture and has been used for over 2000 years. It's is