Ming Style Huali Chinese Console Table - Circa 1945 Architectural Windows These boxes are also called

These boxes are also called opium boxes

Each one is unique - wired and PAT tested in our own workshop in the UK

Woods used are elm

translated into Chinese as Lohan

Our antique hundi are mostly 19th or early 20th century

Ming Style Huali Chinese Console Table - Circa 1945 Architectural Windows These boxes are also calledThis beautiful old Chinese hardwood console table is constructed from huali wood, specifically Vietnamese yellow huali ( yunn hung) a form of rosewood. The wood grain is incredibly decorative this would have been an expensive commission made by a master carpenter. An identical but larger version can be seen in Chinese Domestic Furniture by Gustav Ecke (pl. 66) made in jichimu (chickenwing). There are two possibilities; either this is a this is a