Vintage Japanese Black Lacquer Delicate Painted Cha Tansu

This beautiful black lacquer Japanese tea cabinet, features delicate hand-painted gold outlines and intricate landscape artistry on its sides and drawers. Tea cabinet, known as Cha Tansu (茶箪笥) in Japan, is a traditional, often intricate, wooden cabinet designed specifically for storing and displaying tea utensils, such as teapot sets, tea cups, and matcha bowls. Originating from the general tansu cabinetry tradition, these functional pieces are used for organized storage and to showcase items for serving tea.

Traditional Japanese tea chests once used to store utensils and tea ware. Today, these antique and vintage chests are admired for their refined design and practical storage, seamlessly blending into both classic and modern interiors, and reflects the quiet beauty of Japanese craftsmanship and culture.

One of a kind piece and in good condition.

Dimensions:10″ x 18″ x 26″

Vintage piece. Sell in used, pre-owned condition. Vintage and antique items by nature have variable amounts of wear, imperfections, signs of use, age and time. Perfectly imperfect. Condition shown as in pictures. Kindly contact us if you need more info. or detail pictures.