Trade with the Far East began to have an influence on English furniture. Often, lacquered cabinets with two doors and an arrangement of drawers inside were imported from China and Japan and mounted on stands once they reached England. This was the birth of the process known as “Japanning", imitating the Oriental lacquers by using oil and spirit varnishes.
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