A very rare huanghuali apothecary chest 17th / 18th Century with floating-panels at the top and sides set within a simple rectangular frame of squared members with plain aprons on the three main sides, the slightly set-back interior composed of a regular array of thirty square-front drawers in six rows by five tiers, each drawer divided into four square compartments, all between two full-length rectangular drawers, each divided into a wide bay of twenty-four compartments, the interior dividers constructed of hongmu, with the interesting feature of the identifying inscriptions or medicine labels for their contents written in ink at the right side of each drawer, with 'fish-tail' metal pulls on each drawer 26 1/4 by 22 by 15 in., 66.7 by 55.8 by 38 cm
A very rare huanghuali apothecary chest 17th / 18th Century with floating-panels at the top and sides set within a simple rectangular frame of squared members with plain aprons on the three main sides, the slightly set-back interior composed of a regular array of thirty square-front drawers in six rows by five tiers, each drawer divided into four square compartments, all between two full-length rectangular drawers, each divided into a wide bay of twenty-four compartments, the interior dividers constructed of hongmu, with the interesting feature of the identifying inscriptions or medicine labels for their contents written in ink at the right side of each drawer, with 'fish-tail' metal pulls on each drawer 26 1/4 by 22 by 15 in., 66.7 by 55.8 by 38 cm
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