Chinese Low Table with Dragon Ball and Claw Legs

Each leg ends in a claw closed around a ball. Nobody is getting it back.

This low table with dragon ball and claw legs comes from China and dates to the mid 20th century. It is rosewood in a dark finish. Low tables like this served people seated on a platform or the floor for tea, meals and writing, and the dragon with its pearl was a familiar Chinese emblem of power and good fortune. A framed panel forms the top above a stepped, molded edge. Beneath it, a pierced apron is carved with dragons among clouds, and a dragon head marks the top of each curving leg. Sixty inches long and fourteen high.

The dragons have the floor. You may have the top.