Zitan Pingtouan Table with Recessed Legs and Floating Panel
A zitan recessed leg rectangular table, Pingtouan, 20th century, the top with standard mitred frame enclosing a flush floating single panel above a plain spandrelled apron, supported on slightly splayed cylindrical legs with further spandrels, joined by humpback-shaped stretchers, 31.69 in. high, 46.85 in. wide, 15.75 in. deep. Other Notes: Compare with a table illustrated by Wang Shixiang Connoisseurship of Chinese furniture, Vol 11, B69, p. 90
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- Zitan Wood - Zitan is the most expensive, and since ancient times, has been considered the most precious of woods.
Zitan wood is the hardest and heaviest of all hardwoods. It is purplish-black to black in colour, and with a grain so dense it is virtually invisible.
Zitan can usually only be obtained in quite narrow strips and so it is rare to find large pieces of furniture made from this wood. True Chinese rosewood is a variety of zitan and is very rare.
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