Description
Hand-restored natural solid elmwood antique tea table (China, c.1840).
We discovered this small antique tea table in the Shanxi area of China. A minimal restoration process was applied as it was found in a very good condition, basically we have found only few scratches from daily use. He was given beeswax treatment for best preservation. It was mainly used as a tea table for the traditional tea liturgy and as a bedside table. It is credited with an estimated age of 180 years. It is built with solid elm wood that gives it durability and strength. It has only one drawer with a metal handle.
- Ref.: AM01024
- Dimensions: 60 x 49 x 29 cm (Width x Depth x Height)
- Age: 180 years
- Material: Solid elm wood
- Origin: China, Shanxi
— CURIOSITIES —
Tea is China’s quintessential drink. China calls herself as the Empire of the Center. The “China” in chinese is composed by two characters zhong guo 中国. The first character zhong means “in the middle” and the second character guo means country: The country in the middle of everything. Tea in China is mostly classified between red tea and green tea (yes, yes, there is also so-called white tea… but I leave that for another day…). There’s one thing that always surprised me in China: washing the cutlery and utensils of the restaurant where you’re going to eat with the tea they serve you themselves. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? Well, that’s right!
The same restaurant offers you a teapot full of green tea (usually green tea in these cases) and a bowl for each diner to rinse their cutlery giving them a small taste of green tea.
This antique bedside table is ideal as a decoration piece of furniture. And it’s going to give him personality in a small space in his house. You can also combine it with one of our antique chests and trunks.
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