Chinese Altar Table with Scroll Top and Carved Dragon Motif

The ends curl upward like a scroll someone forgot to finish reading.

This altar table with scroll top and carved dragon motif comes from China and dates to the early 20th century. It is rosewood, finished dark. Long narrow tables of this form traditionally stood against a wall in Chinese homes and temples, holding offerings, incense and ancestral tablets. Pierced dragons writhe through the apron, flanked by geometric brackets. Slender grooved legs, joined at the sides by open stretchers, end in carved feet. Sixty inches long and forty high.

Put something on it you respect.