Gilt Black Lacquer Chinese Export Shrine Cabinet - Ca 1820 Origin - New Guinea 128 x 61 x 53

128 x 61 x 53 (wxdxh cms)

101 x 8 x 160 (wxdxh cms)

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Grouped together these look amazing in a kitchen - Sometimes used as dowry in the old days the ladies of the house took great pride in their polished brass - from Northern India - Circa 80 years old

Gilt Black Lacquer Chinese Export Shrine Cabinet - Ca 1820 Origin - New Guinea 128 x 61 x 53This excellent Chinese export cabinet is one of a kind, deeply unusual in form, and comes with excellent provenance. It's one of the highest quality Chinese export cabinets we've seen and is on par with many of the pieces in the Peabody Essex Museum, the leading museum for Canton export ware. The cabinet was made in Canton in the early 19th century and merges traditional Chinese black lacquer & maki e gilt work with British brass hardware & depictions