Zhuo side table, Zitan wood Late Ming (1573–1644)

Of standard mitre, mortise and tenon frame and flush, tongue-and-grooved, five board floating-panel construction supported by four dovetailed transverse stretchers underneath. There are exposed tenons on the short rails of the frame top. The edge of the frame is grooved and moulds downward and inward to end in a narrow flat band. The recessed waist and the beaded-edged, straight apron, made of one piece of wood, is mitred, mortised, tenoned into and half-lapped onto the legs which double-lock tenoned to the mitred frame and terminate in well drawn hoof feet. Below the aprons are hump-back shaped stretchers mortised and tenoned into the legs.

Hong Kong, 2007, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III”

Grace Wu Bruce, Zitan Furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, Hong Kong Exhibition, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 18 – 19
Grace Wu Bruce, Feast by a wine table reclining on a couch: The Dr. S. Y. Yip Collection of Classic Chinese Furniture III, Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 136 – 137

Similar examples:
Craig Clunas,Chinese Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum Far Eastern Series, London, 1988, p. 48 for a similar but smaller example in huanghuali wood
Another example, also smaller, is in the collection of the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, Beijing, published in Chen Zengbi, Zhongyang Gongyi Meishu Xueyuan Yuancang: Zhenpin Tulu, dier ji, Mingshi Jiaju, (Central Academy of Arts and Crafts: Illustrations of collections, volume 2, Ming Furniture), Top-Notch Publication Co., Hong Kong, 1994, p. 35

Furniture pieces made in zitan wood dated to the Ming are very rare. Surviving examples are mostly the carved and decorated pieces of the eighteenth century or the plain ones of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. 
This Ming Design, seen already in wall murals of the Jin and Yuan dynasties (1115 – 1368) is hailed by furniture historians to be an all time classic.