Chinese Black Lacquer Elm Sideboard - 19thC Tansu This cabinet is painted on

This cabinet is painted on the front

Ding Bronze Vase - with silver inlay - a museum quality  reproduction piece - The original Ding bronzes were made in the Warring States Period - 475 - 221 BC

atmospheric surface that speaks to the cabinet’s age and long history of everyday use

Traditionally used to store paan ingredients — a mixture of betel leaf

Chinese Black Lacquer Elm Sideboard - 19thC Tansu This cabinet is painted onThis beautiful traditional black lacquer Chinese sideboard is a classic example of black lacquering on sideboards made for city residents in Shanxi Province in North China. Beautifully painted with good luck and wise symbols to instill wisdom in the owner. Sideboards like this would have been used as altar cabinets, for burning incense on and making offerings to the ancestors. Over 150 years old and made in the first half of the 19th century, soft