The range includes tables made for brick couches (kangzhuo), narrow tables with corner legs (kangji), narrow tables with recessed legs (kangan) and square-corner cabinets made for brick couches (kanggui).

Most furniture made for brick couches (kang) is comparatively small. The approximate heights of tables made for the brick couch (kangzhuo), narrow tables with corner legs (kangji) and narrow tables with recessed legs (kangan), are 30-40cm. The kang table was usually placed in the centre of a brick couch (kang) to be used as a dining table or to hold small objects for guests; narrow tables with corner legs and those with recessed legs (kangji and kangan) were often placed in pairs on each end of the brick couch. Square-corner cabinets were used in pairs on one side of the couch and measured about 80-140cm in height.

Ming furniture made for the brick couch is relatively rare when compared to other Ming forms. This changes during the Qing period, when the Manchu rulers introduced many more examples of kang furniture. In the northern region it was common for people to combine a wooden bed with a brick couch to form a large built-in platform that was the centre for family activities. Many forms of kang furni¬ture that did not exist or were rarely encountered in the Ming dynasty were seen in profusion in the Qing, such as low games tables, card tables, fish tables, and long rectangular tables with a removable board top and pedestal supports.