Chinese Hu or Vessel-form Stool/Table, Based

Nature made the stone. Somebody decided it was a jar.

This hu, or vessel-form stool or table, comes from Guangxi Province, China, and its age is indeterminate. The material is Tian Er stone. The hu is an ancient Chinese vessel shape once used for wine, and collectors set stones of this form in gardens and studies as a seat or low table. Chocolate-brown splashes and branching lines spread across a cream ground, under a flat round top. A horizontal band circles the lower body, and a dark wooden base with curved feet carries it. Seventeen inches high and nineteen in diameter.

Sit on it or set a drink on it. Either way, you are outranked.