Chinese Export Furniture
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
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Style: Chinese Export
Monumental Cracked Chinese Oil Jar with Repairs
Located in Dallas, TX
The Brendan Bass Estate Collection is an homage to the beauty of vintage and antique
pieces, each artfully concealing endless stories collected through the generations in which they...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Pottery
A fine pair of 19th century Rose Medallion and gilt bronze mounted lamps
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine 19th century pair of Rose Medallion porcelain lamps with gilt bronze bases.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Provincial Blue and White Tea Leaf Jar
Located in Chicago, IL
Tea has an auspicious beginning—it was purportedly enjoyed by the Buddha himself, and cakes of tea as large as wagon wheels were given to Chinese emperors as tribute. Tea drinking wa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century Vintage Chinese Country Style Console Table/Sideboard
Located in Pomona, CA
This beautiful vintage console table has beautiful traditional Ming style simple country design. It features double open doors compartm...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Elm
$999 Sale Price
57% Off
Chinese Finely Cast 19th Century Bronze Vessel circa 1860
Located in Central England, GB
A Chinese Finely Cast 19th century bronze vessel
This bold and stylish Chinese shaped hexagonal vessel is heavily cast in solid bronze. It has a very pleasing shape which is enhan...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chloe Chair by Gordon Gu
Located in hong kong, HK
Nature is always neither dying nor being born, creating and deducing all things in a natural and endless way. Man comes from nature, but he will eventually return to it. Every tree a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Crystal
$2,980 / item
Set of 4 Chinese Export Blue
White Canton Porcelain Candlesticks
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 4 antique Chinese Export porcelain candlesticks.
In the Canton pattern.
Each in an inverted trumpet form and decorated in underglaze blue with a mountainous Chinese v...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Silver Biscuit Box
Located in London, GB
A Chinese Export Silver Biscuit Box, round with a collet foot and profusely decorated with applied prunus. against a smooth plain background. The box has...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Pair of Chinese Porcelain Vases, Satsuma, 1970
s.
Located in Praha, CZ
The vases are hand-decorated with painted scenes, figures in kimonos.
In the background you can see landscapes, mountains, trees.
The decoration is richly interwoven with gold color ...
Category
1970s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Export Silver Goblet With Dragon Stem
By Leeching
Located in London, GB
A Chinese Export Silver Goblet with dragon stem, engraved foliage to the bowl, and a gilded interior. The maker is FengzhaoJi (冯朝记), and it was retailed by the firm of Leeching, circ...
Category
1870s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Pair of Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vases
Located in Germantown, MD
A Pair of Mid Century Chinese Cloisonne Enamel Vases
Measures 5.5" in width, 5.5" in depth and 9" in height.
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass, Enamel
$915 Sale Price / set
25% Off
1920
s Chinese Export Oriental Heavily Carved Camphor Wood Wardrobe Part Suite
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning hand made Chinese Export circa 1900-1920 Camphor wood wardrobe which is part of a set
I have the matching super rare chest of draw...
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Chinese Export Silver Tankards
Located in London, GB
A rare pair of Chinese export silver mugs/tankards, each with figural Court scenes, bamboo, and dragon handles. They have the mark for Hoaching of Canton, circa 1860, and the Chinese...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
$13,764 / set
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Lamp Bases
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair of Chinese Export porcelain lamp bases mounted in French Louis XVI style bronze dore.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Framed Antique Chinese Textile Groups Qing Dynasty Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A group of three antique Chinese textiles, arranged and professionally matted and framed. The museum quality display includes two similar pouches symmetrically flanking a fan case...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
19th Century Cloisonné Vase
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th century Cloisonné vase richly decorated with bright Oriental patterning, chrysanthemum flowers, and birds. Topped with a gold rim, and featuring a bright blue interior, two sides are flanked with golden lion...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Chinese Export Polychrome Porcelain Cachepots, 18th Century
Located in El Monte, CA
This pair of 18th century Chinese Export polychrome porcelain cachepot are an exceptional example of antique porcelain made by skilled Chinese artisans for the European market. A sca...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Mid Century Chinese Large Cinnabar Vase
Located in Germantown, MD
For your consisderation is this Mid Century Chinese Large Cinnabar Vase.
Measures 7" in width, 7" in depth and 13" in height
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
$896 Sale Price
25% Off
Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Dallas, TX
Title of product- Chinese Art Deco Rug
Item Details and Description for the rug:
The item's dimensions are 106" x 138" which are approximate dimensions. It is a Chinese art deco rug...
Category
1930s Vintage Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Thread
$7,320
Antique 18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Tea Caddy with Lovebirds
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Chinese Export porcelain tea caddy.
Decorated in cobalt with gilt highlights throughout.
With a central gilt cartouch of crossed laurels to both sides with a monogra...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Four Antique 19th Century circa 1880 Chinese Gouaches on Rice Paper Geisha Girls
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely suite of four antique circa 1880’s Chinese hand painted Gouache paintings depicting Geisha girls in traditional settings.
A very good looking and beautifully painted suite, they were made for the export market during the British colonialism...
Category
1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Peking Chinese Runner
Located in Closter, NJ
In the 1860s an organized carpet industry was established under imperial patronage in Peking. These carpets tended to have tighter and finer weaves than their Ningxia counterparts, o...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wool, Cotton
19th Century Chinese Urn Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Originally, a ginger jar converted to a lamp. Fine French dore bronze mounts. Custom parchment shade is 14" in diameter by 9.5" high. The overall body width is 9.5".
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chinese "Giant" Cloisonné Enamel Egg "Flowers" with Wood Stand #Ja2
Located in Norton, MA
Presenting a very large and beautiful Chinese cloisonné enamel egg with intricated patterns made by hand seating on a wood stand, early 20 century. It's measured about 16.5" x 10" wi...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Copper
Midcentury Italian Terracotta Foo Dog Garden Seats, a Pair
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a facing pair of midcentury Italian glazed terracotta foo dog garden seats in very good condition. They are a rare find! They are unmarked and i...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Majolica, Terracotta
Framed Antique Two-Piece Chinese Embroidery Winter Jacket Ensemble
Located in Atlanta, GA
This two-piece set of Chinese antique winter coat and a neck warmer ensemble circa 19th century (late Qing dynasty) is presented in two matching giltwood shadow boxes. Tailored in light auberge silk with thick padding, the attire was reserved for cold winter weather, which was common in Northern China. The surface is masterfully adorned with embroidery of silver threads. Although the color pallet was nearly minimalistic compared to many other colorful embroidery work at the time, the contrast of silver on auberge background is visually stunning and exudes a noble air of elegance. Floral and foliage motifs are showcased in neat arrangement across the coat and ocean waves and coral rocks...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Giltwood, Silk
Fine Chinese Carved Wood Statue of a Fisherman, , circa 1900, Republic period
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
We have a Chinese wooden sculpture. A fisherman who is carrying a fish. The teeth and the eyes are made of glass and, for the eyes, they are p...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Glass, Wood
$431 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Chinese Carpet, Tan and Blue Carpet, Handmade Wool Rug
Located in Port Washington, NY
This elegant vintage Chinese rug is a classic example of the Peking style, woven in the late 20th century during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic era (circa 1980–1990).
Desi...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wool
Late 19th Century Chinese Red Lacquer Blanket Chest
Located in Sacramento, CA
Late 19th century Chinese red lacquer blanket chest with rattan top. These chests were often used for storage in homes, particularly for bedding and textiles, combining functionality...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Chinese Export Porcelain Puppies
Located in Essex, MA
Well modeled "lion dogs'" modeled after a Pekingese the companion pet of Chinese royalty. Cream colored ground with brown accents.
Category
1860s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$5,800 / set
Chinese Export, Ebonized Wood, Mother-of-Pearl, Center Table, China, 1900
Located in Manhasset, NY
Chinese Export, Ebonized Wood, Mother-of-Pearl, Center Table, China, 1900
A beautifully crafted black lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid Chinese antique tilt-top table, dating from ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Pair Early 20th Century Chinese Shiwan Turquoise Glazed Earthenware Vases
Located in Houston, TX
A large pair of Ming style pottery vases featuring beautiful thick flowing turquoise glaze featuring birds, flowers, foliage and fish. Wood stands included.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Earthenware, Wood
Chinese Silver Card Holder Artist Lee Ching
By Leeching
Located in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leeching Chinese silver card holder.
Solid silver card holder.
Origin China (Canton) Circa 1840 1870.
Signed on its base (stamp).
Canton manners...
Category
1850s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Chinese Black Lacquer Mother of Pearl Decorative Wall Fan
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful decorative Wall Hanging Fan , circa 1950's, Black Lacquer Mother of Pearl
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for expo...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
$8,639 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Antique Large Chinese Woven Wicker Wedding Basket
Located in West Hartford, CT
Three tiered Asian Chinese wedding basket was certainly make a statement!
Woven reeds split bamboo throughout. Dragon head metal brass handles...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
Early 20th century carved Chinese hard wood floor lamp
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century carved Chinese hard wood floor lamp circa 1920.
Carved in heavy hardwood. Carved dragons head forming the outlet for the light fitment, long stem leading down to ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Early 20th Century Decalcomania Vase Lamp
Located in Dublin 8, IE
Early 20th Century large decalcomania vase lamp of baluster form depicting oriental figures, birds, butterflies and foliate detail set against g...
Category
Early 20th Century Irish Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Wang Hing Large Chinese Silver Dragon Mug
Located in New York, NY
Chinese silver mug, ca 1910. Straight and upward tapering sides and c-scroll handle. A spare form enlivened with applied wraparound dragon chasing its tail. Marks include stamp for W...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Chinese Export Silver Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
Turn-of-the-century Chinese export silver picture frame. Oval window in shaped surround with scrolls and flower heads at top, and leaves, stars, flowers, and heart cartouche vacant o...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
19th Century Chinese Heavily Carved Hardwood Center Table
Located in Milford, NH
A fine example of a Chinese heavily carved hardwood center table, with a bordered three board top surmounting a pierce carved frieze on all four sides featuring deer, flowers, and sc...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Striking Red Antique Chinoiserie Lacquered Cabinet
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Large striking red and gold Chinoiserie cabinet having two doors that open to storage within. No shelf but there is a railing for one. The gilded birds and foliage hand painted dec...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Decorative Wall Plate with Birds
Located in Milano, IT
Round plate made of bronze and cloisonné enamel designed in China in the 20th century.
This plate is made of bronze and cloisonné enamel, a goldsmith technique originally applied to...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
$767 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Good Quality 19th Century Chinese Rose Medallion Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality pair of 19th century Chinese Cantonese / rose Medallion vases, each having the classical green ground with pink floral decoration, pierced blue handles to either ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Framed Antique Embroidery Chinese Textile Qing Dynasty Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A piece wonderful antique textile fragment from China, circa 19th century Qing dynasty, artistically displayed in a giltwood frame with white ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silk, Giltwood
Frame Antique Chinese Embroidered Robe Qing Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A woman's coat made of black silk with wide sleeves from Chinese late Qing Dynasty (mid to late 19th century), mounted and presented on blue linen board and framed as a stunning piec...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silk, Giltwood
Exceptional
Highly Decorative Pair of Chinese Export Carved Giltwood Panels
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptional & highly decorative pair of antique Chaozhou hand carved giltwood panels, both showing finely executed relief-carved & gilded vignettes, composed in a terraced format ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Framed Antique Chinese Embroidery Textile Qing Dynasty Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A piece of beautiful antique textile fragments from China, circa 19th century Qing dynasty, artistically displayed in a giltwood frame with contrasting teal blue color cloth matts. O...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silk, Giltwood
Mason’s Ironstone Chinese Ceramic Vase with Top and Flower Print
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Mason’s Ironstone Chinese Ceramic Vase with Top and Flower
Measures 25cm x20cm / 9,83 x 7,87 inches.
PRADERA is a second generation of a family run bus...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Shanxi Province Elm Sofa Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Shanxi Province Elm sofa table
This Antique Shanxi Province Elm sofa table has its original color and patina. This piece would be great in any...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood, Elm
Wooden Samourai Sculpture, Early 20th Century, Gold Color, China
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
We have a very nice wooden Samourai sculpture, With It's arms up. It dates from the early 20th century, and you can see the aging in its beautiful patina. . The work of sculpture is ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
$815 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Samson Chinese Export Style Porcelain Table Lamps
Located in Essex, MA
Baluster form decorated with a central crest with overall reds, greens and blues.
Category
1890s French Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Antique Glazed Ceramic Dragon Roof Tile on Custom Stand
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Striking large antique Chinese fragment of a glazed ceramic roof tile in the shape of a dragon in a beautiful shade of green. Mounted on custom stand to make it an unexpected piece ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Antique Hand Painted Chinese Porcelain Lamp with Gilt Metal Mounts
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This handsome 19th Century Chinese hand painted porcelain lidded jar was mounted as a lamp in the early 20th Century. It is...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Silver Goblet
Located in London, GB
Large Chinese Export Silver Goblet engraved with bamboo and three cicadas and standing on three entwined shoots of bamboo. The goblet was retailed by Wang Hing circa 1895, and the ma...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Asian Brass Mounted Rosewood and Felt Lined Jewelry Box
Located in Germantown, MD
This is a Chinese jewelry box that is made out of rosewood with beautiful Chinoiserie brass trim. It is a nice heavy box that measures 12”W x 8”L x 6”H. The top layer inside holds 5 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
$671 Sale Price
25% Off
Kang
Coffee Table, Susanne Hollis Collection
Located in San Marino, CA
Our take on a 19th century Chinese kang table. Clean, simple stretchers on four straight legs. Even in patina and surface. Lead time 4-6 weeks.
Custom sizes available.
Category
2010s American Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
$2,800 / item
19th Century Pair of Chinese Porcelain Fruit Dishes
Located in Brea, CA
19th century a pair of large Chinese porcelain fruit dishes with beautiful hand painted. Measures: 8.5 x 6.25 x 2 inch.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Silver Goblet
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Goblet embossed and chased with a single dragon around the bowl and with an applied shield-shaped cartouche. The goblet dates from around 1900, was made by Bao ...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Pair of Blue and White Porcelain Lidded Pagoda Form Tea Caddies
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Pair of petite Chinese blue and white porcelain canisters or caddies with an elegant pagoda form hand decorated with floral and geometric designs ar...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export furniture made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Wang Hing
Co., Luen Wo, and Hung Chong
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