Chinese Tea Table Set (With 4 Stools)

A black table gathers four little stools like ducklings.

This tea table set (with 4 stools) is from Shanghai, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is yunnan marble. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. Dark lacquered square table with a plain top and shaped apron, set with four small square-seat stools with curved aprons and inward-turned feet. All are finished in black with brown at the worn edges. It is 24 inches long, 24 deep and 27 high.

A tidy little dining party, no chairs needed.