Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 11

Chinese Lacquered Offering Table, c. 1800

About the Item

Perfected in the Ming dynasty, complex joinery techniques allowed craftsmen to create furniture with flowing lines, a sense of lightness, and remarkable durability. Crafted using traditional methods, this 19th-century offering table is a beautiful example of this refined approach to design. Worn smooth and richly toned, the lacquered table once supported lush offerings of flowers and food as part of traditional rituals honoring ancestors. Ideal as a console or sofa table, the altar features a rectangular floating-panel top, a waisted apron, humpback stretchers and legs that taper to spiral-form feet. The clean-lined table is minimally decorated, adorned only by the subtle details of the finely beaded edging and oblong cutouts to the waisted apron.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 70.75 in (179.71 cm)Depth: 17 in (43.18 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    c. 1800
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    Chicago, IL
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: TLB0881stDibs: LU820035002272
More From This SellerView All
  • Chinese Sword Leg Offering Table, circa 1800
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This 19th century table is styled with lyrical lines and classical proportions. It is easily identified by its arched and curved apron and the beautifully balanced abstract sword sha...
    Category

    Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Console Tables

    Materials

    Elm

  • Chinese Shallow Offering Table, c. 1800
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This offering table from China's Shanxi province dates to the early 19th century and was originally used to display an ancestor shrine in a provincial h...
    Category

    Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Rustic Console Tables

    Materials

    Elm

  • Provincial Chinese Two-Drawer Table, c. 1800
    Located in Chicago, IL
    Crafted of northern elmwood in China's Shanxi province, this early 19th-century altar table was once used to display an ancestral shrine in a provinci...
    Category

    Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Desks and Writing Tables

    Materials

    Elm

  • Chinese Scholarly Lacquered Offering Table, c. 1850
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This mid-19th century console table was likely used as an offering table bearing incense. Appealing to the rarified taste of China’s literati, this Qing-dynasty table depicts auspici...
    Category

    Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Furniture

    Materials

    Elm

  • Chinese Eternal Love Offering Box, c. 1800
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This ornately carved 19th-century offering box would have been presented as a gift filled with popular Chinese snacks, including roasted melon seeds, dried fruit, and soybeans toaste...
    Category

    Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Decorative Boxes

    Materials

    Lacquer, Paint, Wood

  • Chinese Threshing Stone Drum, C. 1800
    Located in Chicago, IL
    This low stone pedestal is an early 19th-century mill stone or roller stone, used for threshing grain on a farm in China's Shanxi province. The heavy stone would have been would have...
    Category

    Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Stools

    Materials

    Limestone

You May Also Like

Recently Viewed

View All