Decorative Document Box with Bone Inlay colour-brown The table is made from

The table is made from walnut wood - a less common material than elm but one that was readily available in parts of Shanxi

in a bathroom for storing lotions and potions

and vegetables for workers in the rural fields and comes from Zhejiang

gold robes along with boats arriving ashore and pagoda towers

The Chinese believed that this life would continue into the next

Decorative Document Box with Bone Inlay colour-brown The table is made fromHenan, circa 1920 This attractive little cupboard was produced in Henan province in eastern China from beech wood, with bone inlay used to add the detailed decoration on the doors and drawers. The pale bone shows various plants and flowers, along with butterflies and , on the two smaller upper drawers, four figures in symmetry. The panel to the bottom right is removed to access two small drawers behind it. The cabinet would have been used to store