Chinese Wedding Cabinet, Black Lacquer w195 low cabinets like this were

low cabinets like this were used throughout the colder Chinese provinces where they would be placed on the 'kang' - the raised platform that was heated from below and which formed the main living space in a Chinese home

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A smoothed rattan inlay is set within the frame of the desk's work surface

The curved backrest features wonderful open carvings of a 'kylin' (a Chinese unicorn) on the main panel

It therefore works perfectly as either a sleek

Chinese Wedding Cabinet, Black Lacquer w195 low cabinets like this wereOur reproduction wedding cabinet looks exceptionally striking in the black lacquer. According to Chinese tradition cabinets like these would at one time have been presented as part of a bride's wedding dowry, the contents of the cabinet would have included such items as fabrics, clothes and silks. The term 'Wedding Cabinet' is a more recent westernised description. In ancient China they would normally be made in either red or black lacquer and, as in