‘I love the way that this table demonstrates the extraordinary indigenous woods of the island of Sri Lanka, they have over 20 varieties of ebony alone’
The Galle District of Ceylon was famous in the 19th Century for its specimen-wood furniture, remarked upon by a traveller in 1848 who described a tea table as a `fine specimen of the Point-de-Galle inlaid work, on which we are expended the varied beauties of Ceylon`s ninety-nine species of costly wood. The skillful artificers of Galle tempt the traveler with exquisite productions of their art'.