A Chinese Square Game Table

This sturdy, almost architectural Chinese table is is an excellent example of "scholar's furniture". Scholar's furniture is known for rounded frames that suggest tree trunks and a general lack of unnecessary adornment. The table's floating panel top is held by round corner posts that gracefully transform into square feet as they meet the ground. Arched spandrels connect the legs to the top, suggesting the roof of a building is held up by corner posts. Two drawers are held in the thick waist. The table boasts highly original oxblood lacquer patina, gently rubbed through to the wood over many decades. These tables are sometimes known as "eight immortals...

This long, elegant altar table once provided a place to burn incense or display valuable art objects. It may have been used in the reception hall of a private mansion or in an ancestral shrine...

This simple and elegantly angular dining table is made from reclaimed teakwood in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The design is based on 1950's modern designs found in Burma and Thailand in So...

This small table or stool features a new wooden base mated to an old terra cotta tile top. The traditional floors of Chinese mansions were made from terracotta tiles laid in a grid. ...

This elegant 19th century low table would have traditionally been placed atop a platform kang bed and used as a convenient working surface for painting, writi...

Chinese side table Dimensions: 18" W x 18" D x 20" H.

A Chinese Qing Dynasty period side table from the 19th century with inset burl top, carved reeded base and fretwork motifs on the apron. Behold a piece from the esteemed Qing Dynasty...

Chinese dry lacquer table with gold designs depicting floral arrangements and accoutrements.