Wooden Jewellery Box with Drawer spo-notify-me-enabled In Chinese homes wooden trunks

In Chinese homes wooden trunks and chests were extremely common and used for all kinds of storage

with the the once bright red of the doors now more muted

Made from Ji-Chi (chicken-wing wood)

This lovely old storage coffer is in pine wood

Wooden Jewellery Box with Drawer spo-notify-me-enabled In Chinese homes wooden trunksZhejiang, circa 1920 This little wooden box features some lovely carved detail on the front and has a removable lid and shallow drawer at the side. It was used originally to hold jewellery and would still make a lovely jewellery box today, or use it to store other smaller items. It comes from Zhejiang province in eastern China, where is was made around the early part of the last century.