Gilt Black Lacquer Chinese Export Shrine Cabinet - Ca 1820 Material - Terracotta Original Japanese triptych Woodblock Print

Original Japanese triptych Woodblock Print by Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-80)

Materials: Solid teak

A hand carved & polychromed painted wood figure of a recumbent nandi bull from tamil Nadu in South India - Dating from 1920

It is an excellent museum quality reproduction

5 x 221 (wxdxh cms with frame)

Gilt Black Lacquer Chinese Export Shrine Cabinet - Ca 1820 Material - Terracotta Original Japanese triptych Woodblock PrintThis excellent Chinese export cabinet is one of a kind, deeply unusual in form, and comes with excellent provenance. It's one of the highest quality Chinese export cabinets we've seen and is on par with many of the pieces in the Peabody Essex Museum, the leading museum for Canton export ware. The cabinet was made in Canton in the early 19th century and merges traditional Chinese black lacquer & maki e gilt work with British brass hardware & depictions