Carved Console Table, Black Lacquer autumn where they would be placed

where they would be placed on the 'kang' - a heated platform of brick or earth that formed the main living area

they were also known in Chinese as 'Grand Tutor Chairs' (taishi yi)

accentuates the grain of the elm wood and complexity of the build

This little three legged stool is a classic Chinese design

enhanced by the red tassel that comes with all of our trunks

Carved Console Table, Black Lacquer autumn where they would be placedThe lovely carved lattice design of the low shelf, on our black lacquer console, harks back to earlier door and window panels in Chinese homes and is made in the same way each individual piece of wood fitting into the next with mortise and tenon joints. Great as a modern day console table with a beautiful lattice shelf at the bottom, this piece is a reproduction of desks that were common in China during the later Qing dynasty, used by the scholarly