Chinese Two-Drawer Lacquered Elm Wine Table, c. 1900 View Watchlist >
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Lot # F789
System ID # 29480120
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Chinese Two-Drawer Lacquered Elm Wine Table, c. 1900
A northern Chinese provincial wine table in solid elm, built with hand-cut dovetail drawers and mortise-and-tenon joinery, the surfaces hand-planed. The plank top floats within a framed surround above an apron fitted with two drawers, each retaining traces of original red lacquer over the gesso ground and brass leaf-form backplates with ring pulls. Splayed legs are braced by stretchers on the sides and back, a stance typical of village-made furniture intended for daily use.
Tables of this size and form served as utility or wine tables in the home, set against a wall to hold vessels, lamps, or household goods. The contrast here is the appeal — the worn natural-wood top sits above a base that still carries its red-lacquer history, the kind of layered surface that comes only from decades of handling..
CONDITION
Good with no remarkable damage. Heavy honest wear throughout: the top shows checking, old splits, surface losses, and worn finish; lacquer on the drawer faces is flaked and abraded to the ground in areas. Drawers are present and operate; both are empty. Edge losses and chipping to the top corners consistent with age and use — rustic by design.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- 34" H × 39" W × 19.5" D
- Material: Solid elm
- Construction: Hand-cut dovetail drawers, mortise-and-tenon frame, hand-planed
- Hardware: Brass leaf backplates with ring pulls
- Drawers: 2
