Pair of Inset Full Moon Kang Cabinets

Placed on a low, raised platform called a kang, cabinets like these would have offered a family in a traditional 19th-century Chinese home flexible storage. They would have contained clothing or other household items and were used side by side or apart depending on the need. Made of dark and richly grained northern elmwood, the cabinets are handcrafted with rounded moldings and finished with a full moon lock plate and translate well now as end tables or bedside cabinets.