Thai Gold and Lacquer Decorated Teak Manuscript Cabinet, mid 20th century

A delightful Chinese coromandel brown lacquer cabinet on stand, made for the export market, early to mid-19th century, China, presented on an early 20th century custom fitted stand. The gem of a cabinet is fitted with doors and drawers, and decorated on all sides. The top, back and sides with lacquer painted scenes of birds and flowers. The front of the cabinet featuring a pair of stunning coromandel doors carved with a shanshui (mountain and water) landscape scene, complete with temples and pagodas, boats and bridges, and figures, all set against craggy mountains shrouded in clouds and rippling water. The cabinet mounted with brass hinges and lock plates (key included) and a pair of carrying handles. Opening the doors reveals eleven wondrous black lacquer drawers...

An impressive pagoda form carved hardwood display cabinet with bone and boxwood inlay, crafted for the Peranakan (Straits-Chinese) community in Southeast Asia, mostly likely Malaysia, Indonesia, or Singapore, early 20th century. The large display cabinet with four wide open shelves for display, set on four clawed feet, and surmounted by a peaked roof topped by a tiered pagoda with carved figures to the interior. A further set of pagodas with figures adorns each corner. The peaked roof decorated with a pair of magnificent phoenixes in flight flanking a large peony spray and a roundel featuring the goddess Magu and an attendant. The decoration of carved and inlaid boxwood. Clouds of carved bone scattered throughout. The sides of the roof each with a pair of sinuous dragons among clouds, a "shou" (longevity) medallion between them, all of carved and inlaid boxwood. The sides of the cabinet decorated with images of carved and inlaid boxwood birds and flowers - the left side with peony, the right side with chrysanthemum. The roof with a carved and pierced gallery below featuring auspicious animals and fruit...

A spectacular Japanese yosegi zaiku marquetry etagere display cabinet, shadona, Meiji Period, circa 1880, Japan. The display cabinet, called a ...

A spectacular Japanese lacquer and porcelain inlaid display cabinet on stand, kazaridana, Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan. The sumptuous kazaridana of traditional display cabinet form, with several shelves and enclosed spaces for display and storage. The cabinet decorated all over in beautiful maki-e lacquer against a dense nashiji ground and inset with blue and white Arita porcelain plaques. The front of the cabinet of asymmetric design, with two open display shelves at staggered heights, and several doors enclosing storage areas of various shapes and sizes, including one hinged corner door, two pairs of sliding doors, and one pair of hinged doors opening to reveal a rounded inset corner shelf. A pair of drawers below complete the cabinet. All supported on a separate tall fitted stand. The corner door decorated with a bold scene of a samurai warrior fighting a demon. This most likely depicts the warrior Watanabe no Tsuna battling the demon Ibaraki-doji at Rashomon gate, in which Watanabe no Tsuna attempts to help a young girl return home, carrying her on his back, only for the girl to turn into a demon, which he then must fight. The top pair of sliding doors with a scene of a man playing the sho, a Japanese mouth organ, along the banks of a river with a waterfall in the background. The bottom pair of sliding doors with a waterfall scene on one side, while a scholar lounges with his attendants on the other. The pair of hinged doors finely decorated with a pair of fully armored samurai. The two drawers wonderfully decorated in the kodaiji style with a stream of rushing water and various plants and grasses. The cabinet is decorated in the round, with the top, sides, and base of the cabinet decorated with various scenes of flowers and birds, and inset with blue and white Arita porcelain plaques in the form of traditional fan. The fans painted...

A demure and elegant Chinese tall lacquer cabinet with painted flower panels and dream stone insets, Qing Dynasty, early 19th century, Gansu Province, China. The tall cabinet of ele...

A fine Japanese red and black maki-e lacquer presentation tray with original tomobako storage box, Taisho period, dated 1917, Japan. The large prese...

Pair of Chinese black lacquered three-tiered glass and wooden cabinets decorated with landscape scenes and carved borders with brass hardware and detailed interior ( Early 20th Centu...

An antique Chinese cabinet from the early 20th century, with ink decorated panels behind glass doors. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this two-toned cabi...

A Chinese black and brown lacquered cabinet from the early 20th century, with with brass hardware, four doors and drawers. Created in China dur...

A Chinese red lacquered three-section stackable cabinet from the early 20th century, with polychrome lacquer. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this red la...

A Japanese compound cabinet from the early 20th century with black and gold speckled finish and glass sliding doors. Created in Japan during the early years of the 20th century, this...

A Chinese antique cabinet from the early 20th century, converted into an open display cabinet with three drawers. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this red lacquered converted cabinet showcases a simple façade made of open shelves and three small drawers fitted with brass hardware. Raised on four straight legs with carved spandrels in the front, this early 20th century Chinese red lacquered display cabinet...