Vintage Japanese kiri wood low tansu cabinet with sliding doors

Cupboards and cabinets

£150

Delivery to London and Southeast for £60

Description

Vintage Japanese tansu cabinet made in the 1950s or 1960s out of kiri wood probably. Two sliding doors with pressed inset metal handles, over three little drawers, with drop handles. Black steel reinforcements on the corners and front. There's an unusual lock catch which holds the doors shut together but no key I'm afraid. Could be used as a low side table, TV stand or even a coffee table (though the back isn't finished as well), or would work on a table top or other base. These tansu chests are designed to be mobile and so have retractable handles on the top. They would generally stack in a modular system but this is the only one now, though I do have a similar one with drawers, if you wanted to put them on each other. Condition is pretty good structurally: it's solid enough, though these were never made particularly robustly; not really for sitting on. The doors and drawers work fine. One handle's drop has been replaced with a different shape one. Cosmetically it has various scuffs and marks, mostly on the top, but it's generally quite clean. There's no finish on this at all, as far as I can see; you might want to varnish or oil it if it's likely to get liquid on it but otherwise it doesn't really need it. Dimensions: 91cm x 45cm x 45cm

1960s

Materials: Kiriwood, Wood

Width: 91 centimetres

Depth: 45 centimetres

Height: 45 centimetres