Camphor Wood Lacquered Chinese Scholar Cabinet / Document Box, 'Qing Dynasty'
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A 19th century camphor wood lacquered Chinese scholar cabinet from the Qing Dynasty. It features original fittings which include side and drawer handles.
Wood, Lacquer
$6,500 / set
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Scholars Cabinets
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair of lacquered and decorated Chinese cabinets.
Vintage Chinese Pierced Screen Scholars Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Chinese Pierced Screen Scholars Cabinet Decorate this your living room with this beautiful and versatile Chinese pierced screen scholars cabinet.
Wood
Fine Chinese Scholars' Display Cabinet, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant display cabinet from the late 19th century exemplifies the perfection of line and proportion that makes classical Chinese furniture so timeless. The tall cabinet has a r...
Elm
Chinese Relief Carved Scholars' Display Shelf, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Collecting was a popular pastime for well-to-do Ming and Qing dynasty gentleman, and a shelf like this one would have been an ideal place to display jades, curios, porcelain, and col...
Elm
Chinese Scholar Marble Stone Table Screen Desk in 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and and well made table screen. In our opinion second half of the 20th century. Great object for scholar's desk. Additional information: Material: Wood Region of Origin: Chin...
Wood
$1,200Sale Price|36% Off
Antique Chinese Ming Style Scholar's Cabinet
Located in Somis, CA
A beautiful, Ming dynasty style scholar's cabinet. The doors and side panels are all solid single boards set with mitered, tenon and mortise construction. Two exterior and interior d...
Bronze
Antique Rustic Scholars Bookcase
Located in New York, NY
Antique rustic scholars bookcase made of Elm wood. Beautiful rustic natural Elm wood Scholars bookcase. Having Lattice style screened back. The elm wood is natural showing ware and a...
Elm
19th Century Scholar Cabinet
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Scholar Cabinet 37.875w x 16.75d x 59.75h This is a square corner cabinet with a central stile between the doors. The hardware is round in shape. The cabinet has a standard mitere...
Hardwood
Mid-Century Chinese Ming Style Lingerie / Storage / Jewelry Cabinet
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
The façade is beautifully detailed with an arrangement of small drawer pulls surrounding a pair of central cabinet doors adorned with a traditional circular brass medallion pull, evo...
Brass
$5,500Sale Price|50% Off
Antique Red Gilded Carved Scholar's Cabinet
Located in Somis, CA
This rare, magnificent, fully carved, gilded cabinet was a scholar's treasure chest. hand-painted door panels depict the scholar's peaceful retirement life at the village.
Wood
Qing elm wood scholar's cabinet from the late Qing Dynasty
Located in Valladolid, ES
Outstanding elm wood scholar's cabinet from the late Qing Dynasty. Also known as the Qing Empire or Manchu Dynasty, it was the last imperial dynasty in China, ruling the country from...
Elm
Chinese scholar's cabinet from the 1700s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an absolute knockout piece. Very rare, Chinese Scholar's cabinet, made from walnut wood.
Antique Chinese Scholar's Cabinet, Kuang Hsu Period, circa 1875
Located in Houston, TX
Please click follow dealer below and see them first! A rare antique Chinese scholar's cabinet from the Kuang Hsu period, circa 1875.
Iron
Unavailable
H 66.5 in W 44.25 in D 20.5 in
Antique Chinese Scholar's Cabinet, Original Carved Lacquer and Gilt, circa 1875
Located in Houston, TX
Please click “Follow Dealer” button below and see them first! A lovely Chinese lacquered scholar's cabinet used for book storage having elaborately decorated door and drawer front...
Asian Schalor's Miniature Cabinet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Asian elmwood small desk top cabinet for storage scholar's objects, ink stone, brushes etc
Wood
Unavailable
H 5.75 in W 24.13 in D 18.75 in
Anglo-Chinese Padouk and Brass Mounted Scholar's Writing Box
Located in New York, NY
With a central well surrounded by compartments and drawers of unusual design. The brass lock, escutcheon, corner brackets, hinges and carrying handles are original to the piece. Now ...
Unavailable
H 68.25 in W 37 in D 18.5 in
Unique Chinese Ming Style Scholar's Display Shelf / Room Divider
Located in Dallas, TX
Simple and almost contemporary in looks, a fine early 20th century Padouk wood Chinese Ming style scholars’ display stand/room divider. Featuring multi-tiered open shelves staggered ...
Chinese Antique Scholar's Cabinet or Bookcase, 19th Century
Located in SOMIS, CA
Elegant cabinet has a "open light" feature on its top portion. The name came from its open design to allow the display of special things or easy access to objects and books that are ...
Wood
Asian Lacquer Scholar Cabinet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Asian Antique Scholar Cabinet with shelves and drawers inside and pair of open doors
Wood
Unavailable
H 34 in W 32 in D 18 in
Antique Red & Black Lacquer Chinese Scholar's Book Chests/Cabinets, Chinoiserie
Located in 10 Chater Road, HK
Covered in rich black & red lacquer, of rectangular form with square corners, the fine scholar’s cabinets with a pair of paneled doors, fitted with oval shaped brass lock plate, open...
Softwood, Lacquer
Unavailable
H 38 in W 26.5 in D 22.5 in
Turn of the Century Qing Dynasty Southern Elm Scholar's Cabinet
Located in East Hampton, NY
Turn of the century Qing dynasty carved scholar's cabinet.
Brass
Chinese Scholar's Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant 19th Century storage cabinet is made from dark red lacquer over Elm Wood. It is an excellent example of Ming-Inspired scholar's furniture with a round posted frame and w...
Elm, Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Scholars' Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning cabinet from Shanxi Province, China. This c.1800 cabinet has four doors. The top two doors open to reveal a shelf and three drawers. The entire front of the cabinet it bea...
Chinese Scholar Cabinet with 8 drawers
Located in Chicago, IL
This large and well-proportioned Elm Wood display shelf once held books and scholar’s artifacts in a private study.
Elm
19th Century Rosewood Chinese Scholar's Cabinet Ming Style
Located in Somis, CA
A rare offering of an original 19th century Chinese antique scholar's cabinet. This wonderful cabinet is constructed with single-board, matching rosewood door panels cut from the sam...
Wood
Chinese Black Lacquer Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
19th century Chinese black lacquer cabinet. A black lacquer Chinese scholars cabinet of cypress wood with black lacquer covering.
Cypress
Chinese Scholar’s Writing Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
This handsome red lacquer bookcase comes in two parts. The central cabinet (main image) boasts versatile storage space in the form of three open shelves and seven drawers, each with ...
Elm
Chinese Scholar Book Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
This bookshelf is a rustic interpretation of an elegant and traditional Chinese form.
Elm
Chinese Square Corner Scholar's Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
Although elaborate decoration became increasingly common in Qing-dynasty furniture design, the Ming-dynasty’s legacy of clean, elegant lines remained a powerful influence as seen in ...
Brass
Antique Chinese 19th Century Scholar's Cabinet
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Cabinet with three drawers over central doors revealing full length storage. The cabinet presents with front carved wings, bold iron hardware. Condition: Cabinet is in rough conditi...
Iron
Pair of Chinese Scholar's Display Cabinet
Located in Chicago, IL
These Chinese display cabinets are made from reclaimed cypress wood and are from Suzhou, China. They each feature mortise and tenon joinery, elegant lattice work that can function a...
Cypress, Lacquer
Chinese Scholar’s Low Kang Hardwood Cabinet, circa 1880
Located in Faversham, GB
An ebonised burgundy Chinese scholar’s low kang hardwood cabinet. Featuring six small drawers, four across the top above a central cupboard that sits behind two doors and two hidden ...
Hardwood
Chinese Red Lacquer Scholars' Cabinet, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
With its commanding scale and simple silhouette, this tall Qing-dynasty cabinet offered the perfect canvas for elaborate decoration. Crafted in the mid-19th century, the cabinet has ...
Elm
Chinese Gilt Red Lacquer Scholars' Cabinet, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This red lacquer cabinet is an excellent example of the rich, decorative style of cabinetry built during the 19th century in China's Shanxi province. Traces of the original gilt pain...
Brass
Chinese Scholar's Shelf
Located in Chicago, IL
This two-level display shelf once held vases and sculptures and was probably part of a family shrine. It is made from elmwood and protected by Oxblood-tinted natural tree lacquer. It...
Elm, Lacquer
Sold
H 75 in W 36.5 in D 15.75 in
Chinese Scholar's Book Cabinet with Three Drawers and Original Patina
Located in Chicago, IL
This handsome bookcase is made from elmwood and has 19th century design. This unusual Chinese bookshelf combines Eastern and Western, specifically Victorian, design elements. It feat...
Elm
Chinese Scholar Desk
Located in Chicago, IL
Spacious piece boasting six drawers and handsomely latticed bottom portion. Stone top adds executive touch.
Elm
Chinese Scholar Display Shelf
Located in Chicago, IL
Please contact dealer for full product description. Price displayed is for each shelf.
Chinese Scholar's Display Shelf
Located in Chicago, IL
Please contact dealer for full product description.
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In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
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