Qinghai Painted Pine Sideboard Cabinet This square shaped warm elm

This square shaped warm elm coffee table is based on original Chinese daybeds

This would make a lovely storage cabinet or sideboard today

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

each with dovetail joints and mounted on metal runners for easier opening

Wonderfully detailed and painstakingly produced

Qinghai Painted Pine Sideboard Cabinet This square shaped warm elmQinghai, circa 1860 This large, beautifully painted sideboard has three sections, each with a removable shelf. The lovely paintings are of flowers, set within painted frames in red, blue and green. Three shallow drawers have been added at the bottom using the original decorative fixed panels. The doors have also been added more recently by cutting what were once fixed panels, as the cabinet would have been accessed through a removable board in the top