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Chinese Alter Sideboard

Antique Chinese Temple Alter Sideboard with Cupboards in Solid Teak Reddish
Antique Chinese Temple Alter Sideboard with Cupboards in Solid Teak Reddish

Antique Chinese Temple Alter Sideboard with Cupboards in Solid Teak Reddish

$2,638Sale Price|30% Off

H 32.29 in W 72.25 in D 22.05 in

Antique Chinese Temple Alter Sideboard with Cupboards in Solid Teak Reddish

Located in West Sussex, Pulborough

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage Chinese alter sideboard with original finish

Category

20th Century Chinese Modern Sideboards

Materials

Teak

Chinese Ming Style Alter Cabinet or Sideboard
Chinese Ming Style Alter Cabinet or Sideboard

Chinese Ming Style Alter Cabinet or Sideboard

$1,749

H 31.89 in W 59.06 in D 20.08 in

Chinese Ming Style Alter Cabinet or Sideboard

Located in Kastrup, DK

Chinese Ming dynasty style altar cabinet or sideboard from Shanxi province, China. Elm and dark

Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Asian Ming Sideboards

Materials

Elm

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Rare Chinese Alter Sideboard from Shanxi, circa 1840
Rare Chinese Alter Sideboard from Shanxi, circa 1840

Rare Chinese Alter Sideboard from Shanxi, circa 1840

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H 41.74 in W 127.17 in D 18.9 in

Rare Chinese Alter Sideboard from Shanxi, circa 1840

Located in Kastrup, DK

Rare large altar sideboard (size - 323 cm long). Elm wood and original red lacquer, moldings and

Category

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Materials

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Early 20th Century Chinese Carved Burr Elm, Sideboard Alter Table
Early 20th Century Chinese Carved Burr Elm, Sideboard Alter Table

Early 20th Century Chinese Carved Burr Elm, Sideboard Alter Table

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Large Chinese burr elm alter table or sideboard circa 1910. Adorned with burr elm to the drawer

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Antique Chinese Ming Style Elm Alter Cabinet Huanghuali Console Table Sideboard

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Mid-19th century Ming Dynasty inspired Huanghuali alter cabinet. Features a long plank top with

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Antique Alter Sideboard, Beijing, c 1840-1860
Antique Alter Sideboard, Beijing, c 1840-1860

Antique Alter Sideboard, Beijing, c 1840-1860

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H 34.26 in W 86.23 in D 19.3 in

Antique Alter Sideboard, Beijing, c 1840-1860

Located in Kastrup, DK

style of sideboard is also called an alter sideboard due to the top is flanked with everted flanges

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Side Tables

Materials

Metal

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Finding the Right Sideboards for You

An antique or vintage sideboard today is a sophisticated and stylish component in sumptuous dining rooms of every shape, size and decor scheme, as well as a statement of its own, showcased in art galleries and museums.

Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance as case pieces since their modest first appearance. In Italy, the sideboard was basically a credenza, a solid furnishing with cabinet doors. It was initially intended as an integral piece of any dining room where the wealthy gathered for meals in the southern European country.

Later, in England and France, sideboards retained their utilitarian purpose — a place to keep hot water for rinsing silverware and from which to serve cold drinking water — but would evolve into double-bodied structures that allowed for the display of serveware and utensils on open shelves. We would likely call these buffets, as they’re taller than a sideboard. (Trust us — there is an order to all of this!)

The sideboard is often deemed a buffet in the United States, from the French buffet à deux corps, which referred to a storage and display case. However, a buffet technically possesses a tiered or shelved superstructure for displaying attractive kitchenware and certainly makes more sense in the context of buffet dining — abundant meals served for crowds of people.

Every imaginable iteration of the sideboard has taken shape over the years. Furniture maker and artist Paul Evans, whose work has been the subject of various celebrated museum exhibitions, created ornamented, welded and patinated sideboards for Directional Furniture, collections such as the Cityscape series that speak to his place in revolutionary brutalist furniture design as much as they echo the origins of these sturdy, functional structures centuries ago.

If mid-century modern sideboards or vintage Danish sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays in the Hepplewhite style, the particularly elegant pieces crafted by designers Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley or Florence Knoll are often sought by today’s collectors.

Whether you have a specific era or style in mind or you’re open to browsing a vast collection to find the right fit, 1stDibs has a variety of antique and vintage sideboards to choose from.

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