Chinese Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19th Century Period - 18th Century linens or decorative display

linens or decorative display

original pigment

Handcrafted from solid elm

This Choksar from Tibet has the original painting - Early 19thC

Constructed from mulberry and poplar

Chinese Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19th Century Period - 18th Century linens or decorative displayRed lacquer cabinets like these are nearly exclusively from Shanxi province in Northern China. They were made for scholars and wealthy homeowners. They would have stored bedding, clothes scholarly objects and valuables. The story is that these are called wedding cabinets as they were presented to a bride and groom at their wedding. This may be an apocryphal story. According to historic records, lacquer furniture was historically fifteen times more