19th Century black lacquered and painted table cabinet

A superb quality mid 19th Century ebonised, boulle and ormolu mounted two door cabinet, the rectangular shaped ebonised top above a frieze with ormolu beading running along the top a...

A fabulous quality and impressive large Japanese hardwood Shodona from the Meiji period, the lovely carved pediment incorporating a large winged bird and having decorative C scrolls ...

19th century exhibition quality credenza / cabinet in amboyna and ebonized with turned and fluted columns, bow end glass doors and the centre doors with pietra dura panels and lovely...

A fabulous quality 19th century French Japanese style shodona, finely inlaid with mother of pearl of the highest quality depicting various oriental patterns, flowers and butterflies ...

England, circa 1760. A fine mid-eighteenth century Japanned lacquer cabinet, with two doors revealing an interior fitted with eleven drawers with ring handles, all decorated with naturalistic scenes including fishermen and rural life. Retaining the original mid-eighteenth century stand, also with comparable chinoiserie decoration and X form stretcher with central pierced quatrefoil. Height 161.00 centimetres. Width 98.00 centimetres. Depth 51.00 centimetres. The art of 18th-century Japanning was a European practise that sought to imitate Japanese lacquerware and became a method of emulating the aesthetics of East Asia within the home. The term originates from the late 17th century as the opening of trade routes in the East triggered an interest in Chinese and Japanese fashions in Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. It’s popularity reflected this era of imperial ambition when the West was fascinated by the exoticism of the East and saw the rise of an orientalist attitude. During this time, Europe’s demand for lacquerware began to grow and The East India Company's importation of lacquered objects and screens created a desire for larger, more practical items with similar decorative finishes. To replicate the appearance of oriental lacquerwork, European cabinet-makers turned to John Stalker and George Parker's 1688 ‘A Treatise of Japaning and Varnishing: Being a Compleat Discovery of Those Arts’. This book contained formulas for creating and applying lacquers as well as various chinoiserie illustrations for readers to copy and modify, having made a concerted effort to reference designs on Chinese porcelain and textiles. European japanning differed from traditional East Asian lacquer work which used sap from the Toxicodendron vernicifluum tree (also known as the Chinese lacquer tree...

Lacquered cabinet of drawers from the Edo Period. This is a remarkable Japanese antique Tansu cabinet with drawers created during the Edo period (1600-1868). The portable Tansu cabi...

A late 18th century small Chinese black lacquered wood cabinet decorated with a raised animal scenery in a traditional landscape d...

Rectangular cabinet has nine drawers inside. Hinges, corner mounts and lock plates in gilt brass. Decorated with river landscapes, insects, birds and animals in pairs. The stand is i...