Chinese Desk with Glass Display Top

A desk that lets the contents of its top drawer show off.

This desk with a glass display top is contemporary, from the Primitive Collection, made in China of lacquered elmwood with a glass top. Elm has long been a staple of Chinese furniture, and its strong grain still shows beneath a dark lacquer finish. Collectors and writers like this form because small treasures can sit in view under the glass. Here two glazed panels fill the top. The black case has thin red edge lines and brass bail handles, with a door pedestal on one side and drawers on the other. 72 inches long.

Nothing to hide, at least not in the top.