A HUANGHUALI TRESTLE-LEG TABLE, QIAOTOU'AN

Tables of this form, also known as altar tables, were often found placed against a wall to display works of art or to hold offerings. The tables are distinguished by their elegant everted ends and openwork panels joining the legs. A similarly proportioned huanghuali trestle-leg table, also with solid panel top and openwork 'chilong' panels, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated in Philadelphia Museum Bulletin: Winter 1963: Chinese Furniture, Volume LVIII, Number 276, p. 71, pl. 15.