JU WOODEN PAINTING TABLE WITH CANOPY INSERTS

When created by highly skilled craftsmen, this furniture is often infused with an artistic force that transcends the bounds of time and place. These functional sculptures in wood are thus as much as at home in a contemporary western house as they were in the Chinese dwelling for which they were created. The finest pieces are imaginative and harmonious variations of a long tradition, They have energy, unity, and beauty not found in routinely produced pieces.