1.   All this comes together in a splendid altar table, of elm, a favorite hardwood for furniture, and black lacquer.

2.   At Thomasville, the marble-topped sideboard in the Vesaya collection takes its curving silhouette from the design of a Buddhist altar table.

3.   It is housed in a two-story downtown building, in a sunny second-floor office with hardwood floors, a podium and an altar table.

4.   The bedroom is furnished with her large Chinese bed and a Chinese altar table, which holds a laptop and a small printer.

5.   White deerskin, used by medicine men, is draped across the altar table.