19th Century Oriental Hardwood Rectangular Coffee Table, 1870s

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A Very Attractive Late 19th Century Chinese Export, Oriental Hardwood Coffee Table Of Rectangular Form, Having Inset Marble To Top … Read more A Very Attractive Late 19th Century Chinese Export, Oriental Hardwood Coffee Table Of Rectangular Form, Having Inset Marble To Top Over Profusely Carved & Pierced Frieze, Raised On Elegant Carved Cabriole Legs United By Cross Stretcher.

Many items were produced in China for the western market from early in the 19th century and beyond. These items are commonly referred to now as having been made for the Chinese Export market and the most prolifically found of these items tend to be coffee tables, opium tables, nests of tables and to a slightly lesser extent altar type side tables.

One of the reasons these types of items prove so popular in the modern worls is because it is of course very difficult to find genuine european antique 18th and 19th century items of furniture which would suit as a modern day coffee table, as they simply didn’t make, or use low tables in europe during antique times.

This coffee table is particularly elegant, constructed from rich, dense oriental hardwood which is particularly hard wearing and combined with a marble top, meaning the table is perfectly suitable for warm mugs, spilt drinks and other similar events which occur in day to day life.


Circa 1870.

Height 19in.
Width 22in.
Depth 17.5in. See less