A HUANGHUALI PORTABLE CHEST (TIXIANG) 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

of upright rectangular form, each door enclosing a single board flush-floating panel mitered and tenoned into the frame, the side, top and back boards mitered and dovetailed, the square-sectioned, arched, double-beaded handle through tenoned into the plinth and flanked to either side with a shaped spandrel, the interior with six narrow horizontal drawers, the exterior with metal hinges, lock plate, escutcheons and pulls