Vintage Brown Ancient Hardware 2 Drawers Console Altar Table GB113S Mirror or situations in the context

or situations in the context of the I Ching philosophy

There is a mirror at the rack and a small drawer for storage

possibly a ritual object or a ceremonial blade

This is a pair of a natural wood paperweight in a rectangular shape with relief oriental lady dancing theme carving

revealed through the open doors

Vintage Brown Ancient Hardware 2 Drawers Console Altar Table GB113S Mirror or situations in the contextIt stands like a quiet scholar from a vanished century: a narrow Chinese altar table, born sometime between the last breaths of the Qing and the first uncertain years of the Republic. The single elm plank top, thick and slightly undulating, carries the soft scars of a hundred winters (fine cracks, faint cup rings, and the mellow sheen that only generations of hands can give). Beneath it, everted flanges curl outward like the ends of an ancient scroll,