Tibetan furniture hand painted has two doors in the front part , Used as a praying cabinet in Tibet .

Tibetan Furniture provides a clear introduction to daily life, beliefs, Tibetan symbols and worship, seen through the various aspects of traditional furnishings and decoration. Explains the Buddhist symbols and motifs, including macabre decorations, that are found on Tibetan furniture, and puts them in the context of Tantric Buddhist beliefs and the worship of wrathful Tibetan gods.

As the supply of original, untouched pieces from Tibet is drying up, "recreated" furniture is coming on the market in larger and larger numbers. The biggest issue is the repainting of furniture. This can run from a minor retouching of a worn paint surface to the repainting of the entire piece with new decoration. This year we saw more pieces which were repainted than pieces with original paint, and it was unusual to find a piece which was not touched in any way. Besides the problem of repainted furniture, the reworking of Tibetan furniture includes creating new pieces from what can be salvaged from the old: refitting a cabinet with doors which may have been salvaged from another cabinet, cutting down a damaged large piece to make a smaller one; marrying parts of a damaged pair to make a single, and other equally creative measures.

The most common pieces in our inventory are are the rectangular cabinets of various dimensions. These were used for the storage of anything from foodstuffs to religious objects. Probably the most useful form of Tibetan furniture for Western homes, most Tibetan cabinets approximate the dimensions and function of a Western chest of drawers. It is only the occasional cabinet however which has drawers, most having double sets of doors instead. Rather than swing on attached hinges the doors pivot on round pegs. Usually there is a shelf located where the upper and lower doors meet, dividing the cabinet into two compartments.

Tibetan furniture hand painted