Superb quality Chinese Export wood, lacquer and gilt wall shelves from the 19th century. These export wares were made to display fine Chinese quality porcelain, glass and other smaller items. These are also known as scroll form shelves. The reason being, the form of the shelves was made to resemble traditional chinese paper or textile hanging scrolls.
The shelves are decorated with traditional chinese motifs. On the left hand shelf unit you have a pair of birds in a pine tree with a rock garden and peony flowers below. On the right hand darker shelf unit there are three song birds perched in a Peony bush. All the decoration is done in fine Gold gilding with some enamel colour accents. The designs are made in an almost 3 dimensional form with texture used to give the design more emphasis and extremely well done.
The shelves do fold back which was done for ease of storage and packing.
Dimensions: Height 57cm (just over 22.5 inches) Width : 25 cm (Just under 10 inches) and depth 2cm (0.75 inches)
Item will be sent very well packed
International buyers welcome