Chinese Table with 4 Drawers & Stone Inset Top

Small table in worn red with two drawers and a top recessed like a tray.

This table with 4 drawers & stone inset top is from Shanxi Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered elm wood & stone. As original period furniture became harder to find, restoration artists began salvaging fragments from incomplete pieces to make complete ones, and eventually full reproductions began to surface. Dark inset panel in the top, a shallow framed edge, and a pair of drawers with round loop pulls. Slim, straight legs. Rubbed red finish reveals pale tan in the drawer faces and brown at the frame. It is 30.5 inches long, 30.5 deep and 25 high.

Worn through to the good parts, as favorites tend to be.