Blue Painted Teak Chest From Gujarat - 1920 Long Sideboards This lovely bleached wood Chinese

This lovely bleached wood Chinese shop chest was originally custom made for storage in a hardware shop in Shanxi

Kang tables are often used in the west as small coffee tables

intricate floral scrollwork

and surface variation consistent with architectural use

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Blue Painted Teak Chest From Gujarat - 1920 Long Sideboards This lovely bleached wood ChineseThis colourful Indian chest has been decorated with painted hearts and tulips in the style of Pennsylvania German chests. The paintwork is modern but the chest underneath is an antique dating to the 1920's. The interior consists of a large storage space with a fitted candle box. The date 1798 painted on the rear defines it as paintwork copied from an original chest in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art which is illustrated in The