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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 304924, member: 2844&quot;]Roxy, I like the cabinet, but it isn&#039;t old. Telltale signs are the sloppy construction, like the corners, and the rough sides of the carving. It looks like someone did a nice job carving the panels, and someone else snatched them from his hands, dabbed some paint on them, and said: &quot;there, finished&quot;. Another sign is the grime in the corners. No self-respecting Chinese family would let dirt build up in the corners of their ancestral shrine.</p><p>It is an ancestral shrine cabinet in Peranakan/Straits Chinese style, which is influenced by the Cantonese style. Probably made in China, maybe in Indonesia, which is one of the Peranakan cultural areas.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a 19th century one, you can see how nicely rounded the sides of the carving and the corners are:</p><p><img src="http://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/sitebuilder/images/Straits_Chinese_Shrine_7_-635x810.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/sitebuilder/images/Straits_Chinese_Shrine_10_-688x735.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/1944.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/1944.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.michaelbackmanltd.com/1944.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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