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Wood and metal. Japan, early 19th cent.
Attractive looking chest with many ornamental hinges, which bestow it with a very lively, particularly interesting appearance at the front, as they are not distributed in a stark, but in an uneven composition. The uppermost drawer is spans throughout, beneath it a deep compartment, and next to this, two short drawers. In the lower section again a drawer, as well as a secret compartment behind two small deep drawers. The metal hinges, partly applied dense, have various appearances; some are rhombic, band-, leaf- or also cross-shaped. Several curved handles are applied. On the sides they are large cornered handles. Beautiful grain of the light pine-wood.
SIZE 71,8 x 73,8 x 37,7 CM (HWD)
Note: This Tansu comes from a very good old Viennese collection and was once acquired in Galerie Asboth, Spiegelgasse