An Early Qing Dynasty Minimalist Altar Table

This long and graceful Chinese altar table features an oxblood patina that has darkened with age. Oxblood is one of the three traditional Chinese lacquers, including red and black, both of which are fully opaque. Oxblood is semi-translucent and shows the beautiful wood grain below. The lacquer is made from actual animal blood dissolved into tree sap...

This slim and elegant table was once used to serve wine during festival days and to display objects of beauty and value. It has a floating panel top, a narrow waist and graceful Tang...

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...

A large Chinese terracotta tomb figure (Ni Yong) from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), likely from the area of modern-day Sichuan. It appears to depict a groom in full costume an...

A Chinese Qing wooden butterfly cabinet from the 19th century, with carved spandrels, drawers, doors and a dark oxblood patina. This elegant small coffer, sometimes called a butterfl...

A game table from the 19th century with humpback stretchers, pillar legs and bamboo motif bundled crossmembers. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty in the 19th century, this stu...

Chinese hardwood , altar table, late Qing dynasty, circa 1900. Faded evenly to a warm honey color and having a good medium scale. Would be great as a sofa table, console or server. T...

Elegant and chicly minimalist Chinese altar table, with upturned pagoda-style tabletop ends, and legs with a cut-out design. The wood has acquired a lovely, rich patina.

A long elmwood altar or console table with everted flanges or 'qiaotou' (commonly called "birds wings"), supported on recessed trestle legs with carved, stylized ruyi, a sacred fungu...

A large elm-wood altar or console table with everted flanges or 'qiaotou' (commonly called "birds wings"), supported on recessed trestle legs with multiple carved, stylized ruyi in s...

19th Century Chinese Low Scroll Altar Table of the Qing Dynasty. A Low Chinese Kang Table with Cabriole Legs. A wonderful Antique table of solid wood as a scroll Altar table console. Used as a low console to present items of specail nature. This is a wonderful example following with solid cabriole one piece legs having a waterfall ends. Highly collectible small low Kang table of the Qing Dynasty in very good original condition. Kang tables played an important role in northern Chinese society. Smaller low Kang tables such as this one where typically placed on canopy beds, daybeds and couch-beds, to hold and display books, vases of flowers, incense burners and other objects. Also used on top of larger altar tables...

A rare Chinese Qing Dynasty period altar console table. The altar table is crafted of cypress wood, a a type of wood with a warm tint and beautiful...