Chinese Stacking Wedding Basket and Valuables Box

both 20th century, the wooden and cane basket with a pierced and carved handle, overall h. 19-1/2", w. 14-1/2", d. 9-1/2", and the brass-mounted mahogany chest with a lift-off door concealing drawers and a cupboard mounted with engraved butterfly-form handles, overall h. 13", w. 12", d. 11-1/2".

Both boxes are in overall very good condition. On the stacking box, the caning is intact. A few of the drawers/boxes have had the inside edges reinforced with black-lacquered tape, including a shrinkage crack that runs the length of one bottom. Three small corner pieces to the bottoms of the drawers and lid are lacking. The top of the lid has light buckling. On the valuable box, the door does not stay on/closed without the locking mechanism engaged and there is no key. The inside of the lock has been reinforced/repaired with an adhesive. The top drawer has a repaired shrinkage crack to its bottom. There is a repair to a foot runner on one drawer back. Two of the drawers have an ~1/8" separation at one side of drawer and bottom. The case with two small repairs - one to back and another to bottom edge. The brass corner mounts on the top of the case are not original and do not match the bottom corner mounts, and there is a faint line and nail hole where the old mounts were. Both boxes with minor scattered nicks, scratches and losses, all of which is to be expected with material and age.

22 x 30 x 30 in