A beautiful late Qing Dynasty -20th Century altar table ,the single panel top set within a frame and joined to scrolling everted flanges at either end, over a wide apron elaborately carved with a scrolling meander of leafing peony blooms, extending to shaped spandrels flanking rectangular section legs similarly decorated, the legs joined at the short ends by stretchers enclosing archaistic openwork brackets, and supported on shaped and further foliate-carved slab feet H: 35 1/2 in.(90.2 cm) W: 65 in.(165.1 cm) Depth: 16 in.(40.6 cm) Condition: overall in good condition, there has been general consolidation to the joinery,there are filled splits and repairs,the surface with expected wear. Provenance: estate of a private Maryland collector ,and thence by descent.