Chinese Wedding Cabinet, Black Lacquer Bedside These beautiful little boxes are

These beautiful little boxes are made from a wood known as 'huang-huali' - a tropical hardwood that is now quite rare and highly prized by the Chinese

As was the practice throughout China where clothes were folded inside cabinets rather than hung on rails

this warm elm piece is a reproduction of desks that were common in China during the later Qing dynasty

It also features the 'plank top' lid and blackened brass hardware that are seen throughout our Chinese Country Elm Furniture range

while the beautiful grain of the wood gives the chest real character

Chinese Wedding Cabinet, Black Lacquer Bedside These beautiful little boxes areOur reproduction wedding cabinet looks exceptionally striking in the black lacquer. According to Chinese tradition cabinets like these would at one time have been presented as part of a bride's wedding dowry, the contents of the cabinet would have included such items as fabrics, clothes and silks. The term 'Wedding Cabinet' is a more recent westernised description. In ancient China they would normally be made in either red or black lacquer and, as in