Chinese Incense Table with Stone Top

Built to hold something small and smoldering. Everything else is flourish.

This incense table with a stone top comes from Hebei Province, China, and is contemporary, made of elm wood and stone. In Chinese homes, studios and temples, such stands raised an incense burner to a place of honor. Here a round top with an inset stone center sits above a carved band of scrollwork and cloud motifs. Slender curved legs end in small scrolled feet on a circular ring at the floor. Thirty-one inches across and 34.5 high.

Incense is optional. Posture is not.