I ordered this small stand with drawer, because I thought from the picture it was all black with white inlaid mother of pearl.
It is a "ladies" theme if you have googled other pieces from the same maker. I think I would have preferred the flowers theme more - this one has multi-colored mother of pearl shells anyhow - the picture of the other style of pedestal gives a better picture of the top.
The hand painting of the shells is mainly good - the color of the shell is white, with a few green shells, and some shaded with pale pink, peach and tan. The shells themselves are pretty, and the construction of the furniture is fine. It came completely assembled and packaged carefully. The faces & painting of the ladies on the side of the furniture are lovely and well done. The larger ladies on the top of the piece, not so good at least on the particular one I received.
One of the ladies has a face with an olive green shell. At first I was upset, but now I get to say I have an inlaid mother of pearl stand with a Chinese Zombie on it. How cool is that? The others have faces that due to the shape of the shell being markedly raised in the center - end up making the ladies look hatched faced, is the best I can describe it. On one, the face has an eye quite a bit higher on one side of the face than the other. Picky points but I could have avoided all this had I got the ones with the flowers instead. Then minor imperfections could just be flowers instead of zombie ladies or hatched faced. I probably would not have bought this had I seen it in person, or I would have found one with the faces painted on better.