'Hundred Eye' Chest, Black Lacquer h60 Tables like this warm elm

Tables like this warm elm version

The chest would have been made by a highly skilled carpenter and is still in wonderful condition today

The lattice shelf at the bottom is similar to those on our console tables and is great for tidying magazines and papers

Two 'S' shaped legs cross at each end to form an elegant hourglass shape

The frame of this model is decorated in gold leaf and paintings of flowers

'Hundred Eye' Chest, Black Lacquer h60 Tables like this warm elmThis modern day black lacquer version has larger drawers for more practical use, each one being ideal to hold CDs and DVDs. Multi drawer medicine chests for holding herbs and other remedies, were used throughout China by apothecaries and pharmacists. The larger ones were referred to as hundred eye chests (or 'bei yau chu' in Chinese) due to the multitude of drawers. The sixteen drawers can hold approximately 400 CDs or use in a bedroom for socks or