Chinese Stool | Side Table

Dark green stone with pale veins curling like wood grain, though no tree was involved.

This stool or side table comes from Guizhou Province, China, and is stone. Chinese collectors have long admired stones whose patterns echo other things, clouds, water or the grain of wood, and natural stone seats carry that taste into furniture. This one is a squat, slightly leaning drum with an irregular, rounded top. The deep green-black surface is streaked with pale gray lines that swirl in concentric loops on the side and run in fine parallel bands across the top. It is polished smooth all over. It is 14.5 inches long, 12.25 deep and 13 high.

Looks like a log, sits like a boulder.