Chinese Altar Table with Flanked Top

Chinese artisans often weave stories and symbolism into their furniture designs. In Mandarin, the words for "eight" and "luck" share a pronunciation, making this coffer a powerful sy...

Topped with offerings of food, burning incense, and painted images of the deceased, this enchanting coffer played a central role in Chinese ancestor worship. Handcrafted of northern elmwood in China's Shanxi province, this 19th century coffer...

Made of Chinese northern elm, this altar cabinet once contained the essentials for ancestor rituals. Although darkened with age, the cabinet’s two doors ...

This monumental early 19th century flanked top altar table from China's Shanxi province is notable for its robust traditional style. The top is carved from a solid plank of elmwood t...

In traditional Chinese homes, slender, long tables such as this one are used to hold musical instruments, flowers, or vases. Often referred to as altar tables, this narrow table form is also used as a domestic altar for familial ancestor worship. This lengthy altar table was constructed of northern elmwood (yumu) in China's Shanxi province over 150 years ago. The expansive tabletop is finished with whimsical everted ends...

This elegant console table was made 150 years ago in China’s Shanxi province and likely served as a family’s altar where they paid respects to revered ancestors. The altar table is crafted of fine hardwood with carved spandrels, everted ends...

Chinese Ming style hand painted red and brown lacquered cabinet with carved sides, drawer and doors. The piece features intricate hand carved details and an antique look patina. Behind its two doors is ample storage, including a single drawer. Exquisite Chinese altar elmwood cabinet features a rectangular top, sitting above an elegant façade, presenting a drawer fitted with teardrop pulls. Double doors below open to reveal a convenient storage space. The sides are accented with scrolled motifs. Raised on straight legs with carved apron, this Chinese altar dresser cabinet charms our eyes with its lovely patina and graceful lines, This early 20th century Chinese lacquered sideboard...

French Provincial cherry server with a carved molded edge top, three upper case drawers with the original hardware, escutcheon, and key, two lower case hinged flanking decorative molded floral doors...

Important 19th C. Japanese Meiji Period ornately carved extreme high relief, credenza or bar back. Meticulously designed with one of a kind tooling. A breakfront form with three drawers over lower cabinets, topped by a hutch with shelves...

A Red Luana marble top is the characterizing feature of the elegant Asta Cabinets, while the doors, side panels & niche are made of matt stained oak and the handles from galvanized c...

The elegant Asta Cabinets are crafted with 3 lower doors and include shelves inside plus open shelves in the upper section. The top is made of Black Guinea marble, the doors, side pa...

This circa 1910 Art Nouveau style marble-topped mahogany sideboard was found in France. The cabinet has four front legs and two back legs. Sideboard is topped with a pale beige marbl...