Chinese Black Lacquer Elm Sideboard - 19thC Tansu Traditionally used to store paan

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

This striking military chest is constructed from teak and has the original brass corners and fittings

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

This is an excellent quality reproduction copy of a museum exhibit cast in bronze and made in the Tibetan style

It is part cabinet and part medicine chest - the drawers have smaller partitions inside

Chinese Black Lacquer Elm Sideboard - 19thC Tansu Traditionally used to store paanThis 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