Low Carved Altar Table boxes-bowls-and-baskets providing a simple surface for

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The cabinet would originally have been used for storing food or drying noodles

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Low Carved Altar Table boxes-bowls-and-baskets providing a simple surface forShanxi, circa 1860 This lovely low table would make a wonderful, unusual TV stand in a modern home, or could be used as a coffee table. It was produced in Shanxi province towards the end of the nineteenth century, where it would have been used as a low altar table. Placed on a home's 'kang' the raised platform that would be heated from below and provide the main living space during colder months the table would provide a surface for ancestor