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.
Find a collection of antique Chinese Export tables, beds, cupboards, table lamps and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Chinese Export
Recognized Seller Listings
Chinese Tang Dynasty-Style Sancai Glazed Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Tang Dynasty-style vase crafted with the traditional tri-color glaze, or Sancai, utilizing brown, green and off-white, and with a glazed ochre...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Famille Rose Botanical Teapot Stand
Located in Downingtown, PA
Teatime Elegance: Chinese Export Famille Rose Teapot Stand
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This charming Chinese Export Porcelain Teapot Stand i...
Category
1770s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue and White Dragon Motif Porcelain Meiping Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese white porcelain Meiping vase decorated in a swirling blue dragon motif.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique Chinese Export Famille Rose Dessert Plates Circa 1750
Located in Katonah, NY
We are pleased to offer this pair of Chinese export Famille Rose dessert plates with sprays of delicately painted flowers in purple and pink surrounding a bouquet of tulips and peoni...
Category
1750s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White, Brown, and Red Floral Design Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese white porcelain vase decorated with incised and painted brown foliage and stems growing blooming red florals, and wrapped in geometric bands of blue, pink and yellow at the ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Blue and Orange Fish Design Lidded Porcelain Jars
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Chinese (Mid 20th Century) lidded porcelain jars with orange fish swimming on blue, sponged backgrounds, inspired by patterns from the Ming Dynasty...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Floral and Feather Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese porcelain urn painted with a blue and white floral background surrounding a center square with a floral arrangement, feathers along the neck in varying shades of blue, and g...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue and Raised Rose Design Double Gourd Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese white and blue double-gourd porcelain vase decorated with bands of blue, framed iconography, and raised, pierced roses amid leaves wrapping the top and middle sections, and a...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Filigree Carved Wall Plaque
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th century) red and gold painted filigree carved horizontal wall plaque.
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Gold
Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Tapered Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a bronze tapered urn with a green and black patina, decorated with raised geometric patterns and linear, carved pieces extending outward fro...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large and Impressive Chinese Export Reverse Painting of Women in Exotic Setting
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large and impressive Chinese reverse painting on glass depicting a group of traditionally garbed women in an exotic setting with mountains and foliage in the background. The subjec...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Glass, Paint
Chinese Green and Cherry Blossom Cloissone Bowl
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Chinese green cloisonne bowl with cherry blossoms and birds on the interior and exterior, and a yellow and blue pattern around the rim.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Pair of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Moon Flask Vases
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) blue and white porcelain moon flask vases depicting centered dragon motifs surrounded by floral and vine designs, and topped with two blu...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Porcelain Standing Figures
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Asian Chinese style blue and white porcelain standing figures (19/20th Cent)
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$4,250 / set
Chinese Rose Quartz Rooster
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese rose quartz small carved figure of a rooster (as is-repair to base) (20th Cent)
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Rose Quartz
Chinese Watercolor of a Sampan on Paper, circa 1800
Located in Downingtown, PA
The large Chinese watercolor on European paper depicts a starboard view of a two-master sailing ship with one man sailing the vessel while two passengers can clearly be seen inside t...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Paper
Chinese Export Canton Famille Rose Plate with Rare Central Peacock, ca. 1865
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Canton Famille Rose Plate, Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi Era, ca. 1865.
The Central Roundel with a Polychrome Enameled Full Displaying Peacock, with an inner border to the cavetto of an al...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Enamel
Chinese White and Figurative Scene Porcelain Winter Melon Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) winter melon form white porcelain vase decorated with a gathering of women and children in a pastoral setting and characters on the reverse side....
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Green Painted Faux Bamboo and Gold Design Fireplace Screen
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese green painted fireplace screen with a faux bamboo frame, accented in gold botanical and foliate designs centered on each side of the p...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Black Painted Faux Bamboo and Gold Florals Fireplace Screen
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese painted black fireplace screen with a faux bamboo frame, accented in gold botanical designs centered on each side of the panel.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Famille Rose Thousand Flower Pattern Shallow Porcelain Bowl Centerpiece
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese shallow porcelain bowl with a "thousand flower"" pattern that covers the bowl in such an abundant array of brightly colored florals that neither the branches, nor the porcela...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Imari-Style Monumental Lidded Porcelain Urns
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese monumental lidded porcelain floor vases celebrating Japanese Imari ware in both palette and decoration, featuring central medallions of birds perched on flowering tre...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Rust Agate Incense Burner
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese rust colored agate urn (incense burner) with pierced round cover with rings and carved monkey and dragon handles resting on a base of 4 fish. (modern base 1¬O" high).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Stone, Marble
19th Century Chinese Hardwood Armoire
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese (19th Century) hardwood cabinet / armoire with large bronze barrel pin closure on the front 2 doors which have 2 interior pull drawers with 2 add...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Chinese Style Porcelain Temple Jar
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th/20th Cent) porcelain temple jar with blue & brown decoration on a white field.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Blue
White Porcelain Covered Jars with Floral Decoration
Calligraphy
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese blue & white porcelain ovoid jar with calligraphic characters on the lid plus a double border, the body painted with a keyfret border surrounding the mouth, a foliate pattern...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Paint
Chinese Carved Bamboo Root Face Wall Hanging
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese wall plaque made from a bamboo root carved in the shape of a smiling face with a bamboo root fiber beard. (Companion pieces: NWL2543A-G).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a patinated bronze vase with a bulbous body decorated in raised geometric pattern bands, sitting atop a circular base, and accented with two...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Chinese White and Floral Column Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese white porcelain table lamp made from a column-shaped vase painted with a crane alongside a blooming pink peony, a wooden base, and brass hardware.
Ships without a shade."
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
18th Century Chinese Export Porcelain Imari Tureen and Cover-Duck in Pond
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese export porcelain Imari Tureen and cover,
Circa 1780
The Chinese Export porcelain tureen and cover are painted in the Imari palette. The body and cover are painted in underglaze blue and iron-red with ducks on a pond surrounded by water lilies . The unusual handles are in the form of upturned water lily pods. The finial is shaped as a closed flower with leaves and the rim of the tureen and the edge of the cover have an undulating design.
Dimensions: 9 inches high x 13 1/2 inches wide x 9 3/4 inches deep.
Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Company...
Category
1770s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Oxblood and White Natural Motif Meiping Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese porcelain Meiping vase in a red oxblood hue decorated with a white natural motif capturing the silhouettes of birds, vines and leaves.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Chinese Tonkin Ware Shakudo Sawasa Erotic Tobacco Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A ruyi-shaped Shakudo-style erotic tobacco or snuff box, relief-decorated with silvered applied figures
Possibly Jakarta (Batavia), first half 18th century
Measures: H. 2.2 x L. 12.1 x W. 8 cm
This box is very much in the Dutch taste, for the illustration is after a print with a legend reading “L’oiseau sans cage. Prenez, belle, mon oiseau. C’est le plus doux présent que je puisse vous faire. Pour les autres oiseaux, la cage d’ordinaire est une espèce de tombeau. Mais le mien semble prendre une nouvelle vie, Lorsqu’il sera dans la cage de mon aimable Silvie.” The erotic message is as clear as can be.
In Dutch culture the verb ‘vogelen’ (catching a bird) is another word for having sex and a bird escaping from his cage indicates loss of chastity. The lady with the bare breasts, while making the sign of sealed lips to the lady behind her, who is pointing towards heaven, seems to be caressing the bird held in the sleeping man’s groin. 17th century Dutch pictures...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Chinese White Washed Carved Wooden Dog Garden Seat
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese whitewashed wooden garden seat carved to resemble a dog, holding a flat rectangular seat on its back.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Antique Chinese Famille Rose Multi-Colored Porcelain Vase Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese table lamp made from an 18th century porcelain vase mounted with wood and brass hardware as a lamp, with a famille rose intr...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
Chinese Porcelain Filigree Garden Seat
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19/20th Cent) beige and aqua porcelain filigree garden seat / pedestal.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Chinese Wooden Scenic Design Carved Hinge Top Box
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-century Chinese carved wooden box featuring an elaborate scenic design with a hinged top and brass closure hardware. (Stamped HUNG HOP CHEST CO. HONG...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese Carved Bamboo Root Face Wall Hanging
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese wall plaque made from a bamboo root carved in the shape of a smiling face with a bamboo root fiber beard. (Companion pieces: NWL2543A-F).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Wood
Chinese Export Silver Bowl
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Bowl circa 1895, finely decorated with chrysanthemums on a matte ground, interspersed with six butterflies in flight. It has a single vacant shield-shaped cart...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
China Trade Watercolor
Gouache Set of Twelve Paintings of Fruit
Flowers
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Botanical Paintings on Pith Paper
Guangdong Province,
A Set of Twelve,
Circa 1850
This complete and beautifully preserved set of twelve botanical still lifes is a su...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Paper
Chinese Jingdezhen Tri-Color Phoenix-Tail Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) porcelain phoenix tail vase with a Jingdezhen style tri-color overglaze with a deep green, swirl-patterned ground and pale pink, yellow and blue ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Vintage Asian Green Tole Bonsai Palm Tree Sculptures
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Vintage Asian tole bonsai palm tree sculptures with green and gold painted leaves and trunks, mounted on oval bases. (PRICED AS PAIR)
Category
20th Century Asian Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal
Chinese Celadon Glazed Porcelain Pot
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (19th Century) glazed porcelain pot in a celadon color with a rounded form (date mark on bottom, see photos).
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese White Famille Rose Pear-Shaped Porcelain Vases
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of similar Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) famille rose porcelain vases with pear-shaped forms decorated with pink and yellow florals, lily pads, cranes, and gold rims on o...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Lidded Bronze Ritual Wine Vessel
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style bulbous form verdigis bronze ritual wine vessel with an archaistic raised banded pattern, a domed lid with four zoomorphic-shaped loops, two decorat...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinese Export Silver Box by Wang Hing
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese export silver dragon box; an addition to our collection of boxes and cases
This fine antique C...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Chinese Red Painted Wooden Flower Vase Base / Stand
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese carved red painted wooden flower pot base / stand with a circular surface to hold a pot or vase, resting on four bowed and carved feet with a circular stretcher.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Faux Bamboo and Floral Motif Hat Stand Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese faux bamboo cylindrical porcelain vase, in a shape traditionally used as a hat stand in ancient China, decorated with a raised motif of a bird perched on a flowering branch.
...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Porcelain Small Canton Famille Rose Elephant Candlestick
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export Porcelain small canton famille rose elephant modeled as a candlestick,
circa 1860
The standing Chinese Export porcelain elephant with its trunk up is painted in an iron-red with gilt decoration. On its back is a vase-shaped candle holder rising from the raised saddle painted with a band of green leaves. Below the urn is a long saddle cloth hanging...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Tang Dynasty-Style Terra Cotta Horse and Rider Tomb Figure
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Tang Dynasty-style terracotta tomb figure of a rider wearing robes sitting on a horse with a bowed head, on a square base.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Tapered Leg Vessel
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a patinated bronze vessel carved with raised geometric and serpentine patterns, sitting atop three tapered legs and finished with two c-shap...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Chinese Famille Rose Procession Scene Design Porcelain Vase Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese table lamp made from an 18th century porcelain vase mounted with wood and brass hardware as a lamp, a multi-colored famille rose and genre scene depicting a processio...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
Chinese Wooden Lacquered Rectangular Chest with Hand Painted Figural Scenes
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese Mid-Century rectangular hinged chest with black metal latch and two side ring handles, lacquered and hand painted featuring three women and one girl in two outdoor courtyard ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese White Porcelain Ginger Jar Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th Century) white porcelain ginger jar form lamp with foliate & bird details mounted on a round wood base.
Ships wi...
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
Antique 1900s Chinese Silver Vinaigrette
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese silver vinaigrette in the form of a purse; an addition to our silver boxes collection
This excep...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Framed Pink and Green Painted Panel Depicting a Chinese Landscape
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese partially distressed painted panel in green and pink against a crackle beige background depicting a landscape wtih trees ad architecture inside a floral border.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Pair of Chinese Gold Wooden Buddha Statues
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Chinese gold, carved wooden Buddha figures seated atop floral and red platform bases (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
$1,800 / set
Pair of Chinese Celadon Balluster Vases
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese celadon colored vases with baluster shapes, accented at the necks with scrolled ears, each sitting atop a round foot (PRICED AS PAIR).
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$4,500 / set
Chinese Cream Floral and Bird Motif Round Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese cream porcelain vase decorated with softly rendered pink florals blooming from green leaves alongside an orange bird on one side, and character ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White, Blue and Orange Floral Moon Flask Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) white moon flask vase decorated with a central botanical design surrounded by blue and orange flowers, and topped with two blue handles.
Conditi...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
25 Vintage Chinese Style Blue and White Ceramic Decorative Balls
Located in Queens, NY
Set of 25 vintage Chinese style blue and white ceramic decorative balls with floral designs, varies with each. (PRICED AS Set)
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
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
Co.. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $40 and tops out at $216,780 while the average work can sell for $1,998.
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