Chinese Kang Style Stand with Stone Inset Top

Boldly, a low dark table with scrolling frieze and a grey streaked panel set in the top.

This kang style stand with stone inset top is from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is wood & stone. Kang style tables take their name from the heated brick platform used for sitting and sleeping in northern China, and the low, broad form is typical of the type. Altogether, a small, rectangular stand in blackened brown with a polished top inset with a grey and white streaked panel. A frieze of squared scroll patterns runs beneath, and the curved legs end in small outward-turned feet, joined by a lower stretcher. It is 9.25 inches wide, 5.5 deep and 3.75 high.

Low to the ground and high in good manners.