Chinese Temple Console or Altar Table with 4 Drawers

Lengthy, low altar-style table with drawers, carved brackets, and a weathered grey patina.

This temple console or altar table with 4 drawers is from Qinghai Province, China, and dates to the 17th century. It is lacquered & painted pine wood. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. Narrow table with upturned ends over a row of four small carved drawer fronts. A scalloped carved apron runs below, and the legs end in scroll feet. The finish is dry, grey and worn. It is 125 inches long, 22 deep and 32 high.

Plenty of carving still hanging on, bless it.