Chinese Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19th Century Period - 18th Century or displaying textiles

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Chinese Red Lacquer Wedding Cabinet - 19th Century Period - 18th Century or displaying textilesRed lacquer cabinets like these are nearly exclusively from Shanxi province in Northern China. They were made for scholars and wealthy homeowners. They would have stored bedding, clothes scholarly objects and valuables. The story is that these are called wedding cabinets as they were presented to a bride and groom at their wedding. This may be an apocryphal story. According to historic records, lacquer furniture was historically fifteen times more