Indonesian Pedestal / Side Table

A tree that turned to stone, then agreed to hold your drink.

This pedestal or side table is petrified wood from Java, Indonesia, of indeterminate age. Petrified wood forms when minerals slowly replace the tissue of buried timber, keeping the look of the tree in the hardness of stone. Here a thick section of trunk has been polished to a glossy near black, with brown streaks and short white flecks running along the grain. A pale, jagged seam circles the lower part, and a fine web of cracks crosses the surface. The outline remains irregular, as a trunk's would. Twenty-seven and a half inches high and 28 inches wide.

It has had plenty of time to think about it.