A FINE AND RARE 19TH CENT CHINESE ROSEWOOD CENTER TABLE

The outstanding antique example demonstrates quality of carving, patina, size, workmanship and presence that the owners searched for across decades to serve the purpose of a circular room within the tower on front of their stately three story Tudor home designed by the esteemed Kansas City architect George Mathews (1860-1903), just before his untimely death.

The impressive table is set with a large, thick, inset rouge marble top carved with twenty-eight scallops and set within a confirming rosewood frame having an equal number of rounded scallops- each iteration displaying an elaborate panel of pierce-carved fruit and foliage - no two alike. The top is mortised to a massive columnar reeded post above an encirclement of upward rising acanthus leaves above an even more amazing encirclement of nearly 40 outward radiating carved wood loops or half- rings encircling the support above the massive spreading, domed two-tier base that is, as some say, 'carved to death', in a relief of elaborate fruit and foliates, all raised on four strong scroll feet.

Measures 33.5 inches high x 49.5 inches diameter.

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Condition Report: Very good condition throughout, no damage, repair or wear and solid as a rock.