Dimensions: 14" H x 13-1/2" W (each)

Chinese Huanghuali Scholar box. Of rectangular form, the front opening by pair of panel doors . The box is mounted with ruyi-shaped fittings and lock plate, all in huangtong. Enclosing a slightly arched and paneled carrying handle flanked by reticulated scrolling spandrels with both side of the handle.
The Huanghuali wood displays a dense hardwood, with deep-brown strikes over golden-black shades tone and translucent shimmering surface with abstractly figured patterns appearing like ghost faces motif.

Over all in EXCELLENT condition, with normal anomalies in nature, natural wood imperfection, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dent; Normal consider ages and wears.
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