Burmese Mandalay Style Platform/Table

In Burma, how high you sat said a good deal about you.

This Mandalay style platform or table comes from Burma, late 19th or early 20th century, in gilded wood, lacquer and glass inlays. Low platforms of this kind were used in Burma as seats for monks and people of rank, and to hold offerings. The plank top is a soft reddish lacquer with a slim raised edge. Gilded scrollwork set with small glass insets runs around the apron above a scalloped valance, and the open frame below repeats the gilding on its posts and rails. Seventy-four inches long, 32 deep, 18.5 high.

Eighteen and a half inches was high enough.