Pillow Box Album as an elegant hall table

as an elegant hall table or as a narrow desk with useful storage in the drawers

smaller in size but with larger drawers that are ideally sized to hold up to 25 CDs each

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circa 1950

like this light elm version

Pillow Box Album as an elegant hall tablePillow boxes like these were commonly used in China during the Qing dynasty to deter would be thieves. The owner would place valuables inside the box and rest his head on the concave lid. Many of these boxes were made of plain wood with no decoration, but more wealthy merchants would use boxes covered in leather and decorated with fine designs. Our boxes are covered with leatheroid, hand painted in gold with classic designs such as the dragon and