19th century Chinese Canton black lacquered desk cabinet

19th century Chinese lacquered sideboard dresser circa 1870. Large and fine quality Chinese export sideboard.  Panel top with carved scrolled ends.  Below the top surface we have 3 ...

19th century Victorian painted bureau circa 1890. Here we offer a painted bureau on behalf of a local registered charity. Flame mahogany bureau given a modern twist, using a matt b...

Pair of 19th century black lacquered Chinese compound cabinets circa 1840. Fine pair of Qing-dynasty compound cabinets, in the Ming style.  Complete in their original blackened matt...

19th century French ormolu-mounted marquetry meuble d'appui circa 1880. Marquetry in the manner of of earlier furniture maker Joseph Cremer. Eared rectangular white marble top sits ...

A 18th century Chinese export lacquered George III style black and gilt ladies dressing chest, in the form of a chinoiserie secretaire, the top with swan neck pediment above twin cup...

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...

An English Black Lacquered Chinoiserie Bureau Cabinet, 18th Century Description: The upper section with a breakfront arched pedimental cornice flanked by a pair of urn finials, over...

This incomparable slant-front chinoiserie black lacquer secretary desk depicts a serene, traditional Asian motif from head to toe. The gold and greens appear as mystical and radiant...