Yumu Elm Console Table From Shanxi - 19th Century Bandhani Silk Scarves Blue & White Porcelain Meiping

Blue & White Porcelain Meiping vase with Peony and trailing leaf design or Dragon design This vase is hand made on the potters wheel in the traditional way

It is an Indian copy of the English Coalbrookdale cast iron which was shipped to India in the 19th century as ballast on returning ships - with a distressed antique finish

they have very good age and would originally have been burgundy lacquer

The sticks are then riveted together with iron fittings

Yumu Elm Console Table From Shanxi - 19th Century Bandhani Silk Scarves Blue & White Porcelain MeipingThis elegant Yumu elm console table from Shanxi dates to the 19th century and is a fine example of the long, narrow altar tables traditionally used in Chinese households for ancestor worship. Its smaller size makes it particularly versatile todayperfect for a compact hallway, as a writing desk, or as a refined console in a living space. Altar tables such as this would once have held offerings and joss sticks, with an ancestor portrait suspended above.