Painted Red & Black Gansu Sideboard - 19th Century Style - Tea Caddy Materials: Carved wood

Materials: Carved wood

143 x 44 x 85 (wxdxh cms)

103 x 45 x 101 cm (wxdxh)

Silvered boxes are very uncommon

The triptych was originally published by Fukuda Hatsujiro in 1895 and signed Yoshu Chikanobu

Painted Red & Black Gansu Sideboard - 19th Century Style - Tea Caddy Materials: Carved woodThis exquisite antique sideboard from Gansu province in Northern China was used for storing clothing and grain by the nomadic people of Gansu and the surrounding areas in the 19th century. The cabinet doors are beautifully decorated with household objects with a central panel depicting a high ranking Chinese official traveling in a wheeled palanquin accompanied by guards on horseback. The front doors have been modified from the original closed front