The table top with a removable central xiangqi chess board, all framed by border panels of burlwood and huanghuali, supported on four humpback corner feet ending with upturned foliate terminals.|清中葉 黃花梨嵌癭木棋桌Provenance: a European private collection來源： 歐洲私人收藏Gaming tables of varying structures were used in China as early as the Zhou dynasty, with unearthed examples dating to the early Warring States period (circa 5th century BC) and the Tang dynasty. See a huanghuali square gaming table, 17th century, with a central weiqi board, illustrated in Chinese Furniture: One Hundred Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection, New York, 1996, pp.146-147, no.52.