Painted Gansu Sideboard - 19th Century Architectural Windows A comparable example is illustrated

A comparable example is illustrated in Folk Art & Culture of Gujarat: A Guide to the Collection of the Shreyas Folk Museum of Gujarat by Jyotindra Jain (Figure 245)

geometric motifs and figurative elements — each panel individually worked and framed within a solid teak structure

They would also be used by farmers for moving goods around on the farm

All the hardware is original to the piece

he has a human head with a stylised tusk shaped moustache

Painted Gansu Sideboard - 19th Century Architectural Windows A comparable example is illustratedThis antique Gansu sideboard was used for storing clothing and grain by the nomadic people of Gansu & Northern Shanxi in the 19th century. They were also used as altar cabinets for family ancestor worship. The front doors have been modified from the original closed front to make it more functional. It would have originally opened from the top by a hatch. Its doors are decorated with a landscape scene on the left and a collection of lucky objects on