BLACK LACQUER LONG SIDE TABLE WITH TWO DRAWERS

Among the most formal pieces of Chinese furniture is the so-called side table, in most cases long, but a times ratter short and narrow table. All the elements in this piece are familiar in Ming taste. The stately and impressive wooden solid top this table comes with in three parts; two pedestal-like, each with a drawers fitted in them and serves as a low shelf beneath the drawer, however overall these features in combination of principal of derived form construction give it a pure architectural form. which is worthy of note.