19th Century Ebony Specimen Marble Top Pier Tables

• Ebony - Ebony is a close grained timber, black in colour. It has a fine texture which can be polished to a high gloss, making it suitable for venereering, inlay and stringing and its use as solid timber is resticted to small decorative items and ornamental decoration, such as chess pieces and musical instrument parts. The term "ebonised" means "faux ebony", timber that has been darkened during the polishing process to resemble ebony.

This item has been included into following indexes:

• Anglo-Indian - furniture, tables 74
• Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam and sadeli boxes - sewing and other boxes 347
• tables, marble top - marble top 133
• tables, period or style - pier table 6