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Fine Antique Carved Chinese Altar Table Rosewood
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Fine Antique Carved Chinese Altar Table Rosewood

19th century
Description

This is a superb 19th century Chinese altar table in really outstanding condition dating from around 1870.

The table is in fine quality rosewood and has a wonderful rich colour and glowing antique patina.

This has a really characterful design with hand carved birds on branches among prunus blossom and simulated bamboo to the legs and frieze.

This is in good sound condition and is an imposing piece at high 138 cms wide 99 cms high by 40 deep.

UK delivery can be arranged with our furniture courier and costs £70 plus vat to most destinations.

Date of Manufacture

Rams Head Antiques has dated this Chinese Rosewood Altar Table to the 1870s.

Independent Date Guide ID 09421700
Dealer's Item Date1870s
Sellingantiques Date1870s
Sellingantiques agingItem 125-170 years old
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Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to THE 1870s:
Hand-carved pierced frieze with birds and prunus blossom: late Qing dynasty carving.
Floating panel top inside a mitred frame: Chinese cabinet work allowing seasonal movement.
Darkened wax patina settled into the deeper cuts: many decades of handling.
Mortise-and-tenon joints throughout the framework: traditional joinery without nails.

This Independent Date Guide was compiled by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. It works only from the photographs shown on this page and is never told the date the dealer has declared. It is a guide, not a guarantee of age, and occasional errors can occur.

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SA1203100
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Rams Head Antiques is a family business based in Wolsingham in Weardale where we have had shop premises for 28 years. The shop is generally open every Saturday from 11 am till 3 pm.

You are most welcome to visit the shop but please always check to confirm we are open before travelling. We have been in the antiques trade for well over thirty years now and stock a wide and varied range of antiques and decorative items specialising in carpets and Eastern and Oriental items as well as Georgian and Victorian furniture, mirrors, oil paintings, prints, ceramics and clocks.

We can arrange worldwide delivery on all the items we have in stock, please ask for an accurate quote.

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Description
This is a superb 19th century Chinese altar table in really outstanding condition dating from around 1870.

The table is in fine quality rosewood and has a wonderful rich colour and glowing antique patina.

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This has a really characterful design with hand carved birds on branches among prunus blossom and simulated bamboo to the legs and frieze.
Rams Head Antiques
fig 1. A carved Chinese rosewood altar table with raised everted flanges, pierced openwork apron, and carved legs.
fig 1. Fine Antique Carved Chinese Altar Table Rosewood

This is in good sound condition and is an imposing piece at high 138 cms wide 99 cms high by 40 deep.

UK delivery can be arranged with our furniture courier and costs £70 plus vat to most destinations.

Date of Manufacture

Rams Head Antiques has dated this Chinese Rosewood Altar Table to the 1870s.

Independent Date Report ID 09421700
Dealer's Item Date1870s
Sellingantiques dating1870s
Sellingantiques agingItem 125-170 years old
ResultsDates match
Why Sellingantiques dated this piece to the 1870s:
Hand-carved pierced frieze with birds and prunus blossom: late Qing dynasty carving.
Floating panel top inside a mitred frame: Chinese cabinet work allowing seasonal movement.
Darkened wax patina settled into the deeper cuts: many decades of handling.
Mortise-and-tenon joints throughout the framework: traditional joinery without nails.

This is an independent date report produced by Sellingantiques using its own proprietary system. The process uses the photographs shown on this page. The system is never told the date the dealer has declared. This report shows that the two dates corroborate.

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Archive I A carved Chinese rosewood altar table with raised everted flanges, pierced openwork apron, and carved legs.

Fine Antique Carved Chinese Altar Table Rosewood

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Rams Head Antiques
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Weardale
Durham
United Kingdom
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A carved Chinese rosewood altar table with raised everted flanges, pierced openwork apron, and carved legs.
Fine Antique Carved Chinese Altar Table Rosewood
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A carved Chinese rosewood altar table with raised everted flanges, pierced openwork apron, and carved legs.
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Written by Sellingantiques from the dealer’s photographs and listing
  • ObjectAltar Tables
  • Period19th century
  • StyleTraditional Chinese
  • MaterialRosewood
  • ColourReddish Brown
  • MotifsEverted flanges, Openwork floral apron, Carved branch legs, Mortise and tenon joinery

Dating from around 1870, this 19th century Chinese altar table is constructed from fine quality rosewood with a rich reddish brown colour and a glowing antique patina. The traditional Chinese design incorporates raised everted flanges on the rectangular top, an openwork floral apron depicting hand-carved birds on branches among prunus blossom, and simulated bamboo on the carved branch legs joined by mortise and tenon joinery. The physical dimensions measure 138 cm wide by 99 cm high and 40 cm deep. Suitable for use in a gentleman's library or positioned beside the front door, this imposing surface provides practical display space for lamps, books, or decorative objects. The solid construction and intricate detailing offer a functional antique table suited to a variety of interior settings.

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Traditional Chinese altar tables were placed in domestic reception halls or family shrines to hold incense burners, offerings, and ceremonial items during ancestral worship.

These tables were typically crafted from tropical hardwoods such as rosewood (hongmu), zitan, or huanghuali, utilizing complex mortise and tenon joinery without metal fasteners.

Authentic pieces display traditional joinery techniques, natural grain patination, hand-carved decorative aprons, and structural elements such as everted flanges at the tabletop ends.

Positioned against a hallway or living room wall, the narrow profile allows it to serve as a console table for displaying modern art, ceramics, or lamps.

Dust regularly with a dry microfibre cloth, avoid exposure to direct heat or moisture sources, and maintain the timber with periodic applications of natural wax polish.
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