An extraordinary example of a burlwood natural organic wood coffee or tea table crafted from a rare golden camphor wood root and burl.

Would make a spectacular coffee or display table for home, office, or high end store decor and serve as a potential functional display for your treasures and keepsakes.

Dimensions: 70 cm, 28 inches high and 150 cm, 60 inches in length and 95 cm, 38 inches in depth.

This is the new organic style for the 21st century. Handsome, exceptional one-of-a-kind example, irreplaceable.
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Provenance: New England collection and originally acquired from an old Chinese Fujian Provincial collection 2008.

The impressive table carved and fashioned from one significant tree root with an additional foot added, in an elliptical form with exposed smoothed top in multiple planes and naturalistic natural bark sides the top smoothly polished to expose a fine grained surface with a small 3 inch disc like metal drain inserted for use as potential tea disposal.

History:
It takes an expert’s eye to recognize the beauty and potential of root and burl treasures that are found in the wild. Skilled artisans then transform these natural wonders into functional and unique works of art China’s root carving tradition dates far back to the Warring States period, over 2000 years ago.

This tea/coffee/display table called “Chaji” by Chinese can be associated as early as the late Ming Dynasty,17th century. Traditional tea tables were often placed between two chairs and sometimes doubled as incense stands. By the 20th century, China’s entrepreneurial furniture makers began crafting more exotic tea and coffee tables and chairs from singular huge roots- some reaching ten feet in diameter. This superb example is among the best work of art to come out of a Fujian family workshop and the private collection of the president of the shop.. in many decades. It is carved from a huge, exotic golden camphor tree root and wood found on the border with Myanmar. The original uncut tree root from which this was fashioned purportedly measured over 10 feet tall!

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Our gallery based in Newport, Rhode Island USA has been dealing in authentic Pre-Columbian, Japanese and fine Asian art, garden ornaments, lanterns and water basins for 25 years. Our president personally travels across America as well as Japan and Europe each year to meet his network partners who assist him in finding best examples. He personally inspects each antique work of art to ensure its old age, authenticity and quality condition.