A blackwood 'faux-bamboo'-framed cabinet with embroidered silk panel doors


Qing Dynasty, late 19th centuryThe rectangular top with inset 'floating' panel and front carved and pierced pediment of lotus design an upper niche fitted with a stepped display shelving and above a pair of panel doors with mother-of-pearl inlaid surrounds and displaying original silk embroidered panels, the left depicting a cockerel and hen on rockwork, a pair of jays and other birds and butterflies below a gnarled pine, the right a pair of pheasants on rockwork with other birds and butterflies beneath a maple tree, all over two frieze drawers with further inlays of figures and foliage in mother-of-pearl upon a gadrooned base section over carved and pierced scroll aprons, sides plain-panelled.122cm high, 63.5cm wide, 32cm deep.