18th Century Qing Dynasty Chinese Lacquer Screen with Calligraphy
Located in Kastrup, DK
Rare 18th-Century Lacquer Screen / Room Divider, Qing Dynasty A rare lacquer screen from the 18th century, crafted in wood.
Wood
Unavailable
H 90.16 in W 54.34 in D 22.84 in
Rare Large Chinese Screen, Room Divider, 19th Century, Qing Dynasty, Red Lacquer
Located in Seeshaupt, DE
This monumental Chinese screen comes from an important Shanxi Province Estate. Originally, this screen would have been placed opposite the entrance to the courtyard or main recep...
Wood
Unavailable
H 66 in W 64 in D 1.5 in
Chinese Silk Embroidered Screen or Room Divider Believed to Be Late Qing Dynasty
Located in Nova Scotia, NS
Four panel Chinese silk embroidered screen or room divider believed to be created during the late Qing Dynasty.
Silk, Wood, Leather, Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Thread, Natural Fiber, G...
Set of 6 Antique Chinese Lattice Panels
Located in Kastrup, DK
Set of six wood carved Chinese 17-18th century Qing dynasty panels or room divider. Each panel features an main section with an open fretwork design lattice panel window, comprised b...
Wood
Chinese Qing Four Panel Lacquered Incised Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare unusual late 19th century/early 20th-century Chinese Qing four-panel coromandel screen. The front features dark red lacquer decorated with scholars objects and small landscape s...
Brass
$297Sale Price|20% Off
H 10.5 in W 15.5 in D 0.5 in
Chinese Folding Screen for Desk Hardwood & Silk Hand Decorated, Circa 1960
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very decorative Chinese folding desk or table screen with hardwood frame and silk panels with hand embroidered decoration, dating to circa 1960s The piece is all hand mad...
Silk, Hardwood
Hardwood and Painted Porcelain Chinese Screen
Located in London, GB
This exquisite Chinese screen is crafted from Hongmu, a dark rosewood from South East Asia. The ornately carved and pierced frame depicts dragons and scrolling foliate shapes. The ce...
Porcelain, Hardwood
19th Century Chinese Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
A wonderful late 19th Century Chinese coromandel four fold lacquer screen. Consisting of four double-sided panels decorated in the most wonderfully vibrant colours with carved and ...
Wood, Lacquer
19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Located in London, GB
A wonderful late 19th Century Chinese coromandel four fold lacquer screen. Consisting of four double-sided panels decorated in the most wonderfully vibrant colours with carved and ...
Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Kuancai Ten Panel Coromandel Screen Mythical Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export Kuancai ten-panel coromandel screen featuring a mythical flora and fauna landscape. Made in the 17th century style that was so loved and collected by Coco Chan...
Brass
Large Carved and Gilt Decorated Chinese Screen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large and intricate Asian carved and gilt panel that may be utilized as an architectural element, wall decoration or screen. In one piece with six panels with four recessed section...
Wood
19th Century Chinese Qing Dynasty Carved Rosewood Table Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
This nice large carved rosewood table screen was created in China, circa 1870. Its carved details depict a dragon flying through celestial clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl. The w...
Rosewood
Antique Chinese Wooden/Revers Painting Glass Table Screen
Located in Pomona, CA
This item is an antique Chinese double sides table screen, featuring a wooden frame with Chinese calligraphy "Longevity" carving on the front and a central decorative hand painted sc...
Glass, Wood
Chinese Reverse Painted Glass and Hardwood Table Screen
Located in Austin, TX
An unusual table screen featuring a reverse glass painted portrait of a young noble lady set into a hardwood frame and stand. The beautiful maiden has a round face with a high foreh...
Glass, Hardwood
19th Century Chinese table screen
Located in Martlesham, GB
A highly decorative 19th Century Chinese hardwood table screen consisting of three shaped panels, each panel having pierced and carved floral fretwork and inlaid with mother of pearl...
Hardwood
Chinese Table Screen with Soapstone Panel, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Prevalent in fine Chinese interiors as early as the Tang dynasty (618-906), standing screens with decorative stone panels served numerous functions as portable architecture. Used to ...
Soapstone
$1,100Sale Price|29% Off
H 22.5 in W 55.5 in D 2 in
19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Dynasty Sign of Honor Plaque Marked Signed
Located in Somis, CA
A rare, all original, actual, 19th century Chinese honor plaque commemorating the appointment of the 16th official, Xu Shao Li, The left side bears the inscription “Emperor Tong Zhi,...
Wood
$20,500
H 67.75 in W 74.25 in D 0.75 in
Japanese Two-Panel Screen Chinese Style Painting with Calligraphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Painting of a perforated garden stone with red bamboo growing behind. Chinese zekku poem reads, "Returning home to my grass hut on a spring evening," by the Tang-poet Qian Qi. Screen...
Silk, Paper, Wood
$1,200
H 62.21 in W 59.06 in D 0.79 in
B126 Japanese Antiques 2panels Byobu, folding Screen, Chrysanthemum Calligraphy
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: paper, fabric on wooden frame One piece: W750×H1580mm×D18mm Unfolded size: W1500mm Folded size: W750×H1580mm×D36mm, 7kg Packaging (sandwiched with 5-10mm plywood): 10cm x ...
Paper
$9,600Sale Price|33% Off
H 84 in W 96 in D 1 in
Chinese Export Coromandel Lacquer and Gilt Six Fold Screen
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Chinese Export Coromandel lacquer and gilt six fold screen. Exceptional and rare six panel intaglio lacquer carving from the mid-20th century. It depicts courtly figures in a contin...
Wood
Chinese Qianlong Mark Chinese Famille Rose Vase with Bats
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning antique Chinese Qing porcelain famille rose vase decorated with bats with Qianlong mark and possibly of the period. The impressive vase of lobed form is painted with shou ...
Porcelain
$12,000 / set
H 29.25 in W 17.25 in D 1.25 in
Antique Chinese Qing Set of Four Hand-Painted Porcelain Plaques "4 Seasons"
Located in Portland, OR
A rare & important set of four large antique Chinese Qing dynasty hand-painted porcelain plaques; of the "Four Seasons", housed in the original Hongmu wood frames. Each plaque is fin...
Porcelain, Hardwood
$1,984Sale Price|20% Off
H 4.5 in W 6 in D 12 in
19th Century Chinese Lacquer Gaming Box, Qing Dynasty, Hand-Painted
Located in Brea, CA
19th century Chinese lacquer gaming box from the Qing Dynasty. Black and golden drawing by hand with 3 gaming lacquer boxes, in very good condition. Measures: 12 x 6 x 4.5 inch high.
Lacquer
Rare Pair of 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose Vases
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A rare and fine quality large pair of 19th Century Chinese Famille Rose vases, each with wonderful pink petal decoration to the tops, exotic floral decoration to the necks with flowe...
Porcelain
$4,461Sale Price|30% Off
H 96.46 in W 51.97 in D 19.69 in
Rare and Beautiful Architectural Pagode Display Cabinet, China
Located in Antwerp, BE
Made of carved wood with transparent fences and scrollwork panels, two dragons at the front and pagoda roofs on top. A beautiful realization by the Chinese woodcarver and furniture m...
Sapele Wood, Ivory
$16,500
H 74.5 in W 48 in D 14.5 in
Antique Japanese Lacquer Inlaid Hardwood Meiji Period Shibayama Shodana Cabinet
Located in Portland, OR
An exquisite antique Japanese Meiji period Shibayama Shodana cabinet, circa 1880. One of the finest antique Shibayama cabinets one will see, the cabinet is finely inlaid and overlaid...
Gold
$2,000
H 65.95 in W 94.49 in D 13 in
Old Japanese woodblock print folding screen/room partition/object
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a woodblock-printed folding screen made in Japan during the Showa period, featuring writings by a Chinese calligrapher. It is a passage from a story written by a famous Chin...
Paper
Chinese Ming Dynasty Carved Table Screen
Located in Kastrup, DK
A rare 16-17th cenury Ming Dynasty standing table screen. Untoched original condition. Hand carved wood, the panel is carved with relief details depicting a dragon, cranes, mythical...
Wood
Late 19th Century Chinese Wedding Cabinet
Located in Singapore, SG
An antique wedding cabinet from Zhejiang province, with beautiful original red lacquer, and original round brass plate and door pulls. This round brass plate is especially large and ...
Brass
$38,500
H 105 in W 135 in D 24 in
Antique Chinese Relief/Carved Screen in Solid Wood & Jade, 135w x 105h
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Chinese screen having 5 heavily carved panels depicting mythical creatures like Dragons. Some of the dragons are made out of carved jade imbedded into the wood creating a be...
Jade
$4,500
H 83 in W 103 in D 33 in
Antique Chinese Hand Painted Porcelain & Carved Rosewood Frame Room Divider
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Chinese Hand Painted Porcelain with Ornate Carved Rosewood Dragon Motif Frame Room Screen/Room Divider This beautiful hand carved Chinese hardwood and porcelain piece is a ...
Porcelain, Rosewood, Paint
Antique Chinese Hand Carved Wood Gilt Dragon in Shadow Box.
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Antique Chinese Hand Carved Wood Gilt Dragon in Shadow Box. Chinese shadow box features a hand carved wood and gilded Dragon from the Qing Dynasty. It is mounted in a massive and de...
Glass, Wood
$78,600
H 7.49 in Dm 11.03 in
Superb Chinese Qing Qianlong Famille Rose Children Parade Porcelain Jardiniere
Located in Danville, CA
For sale is a nice Chinese Qing Qianlong period Famille Rose porcelain Jardiniere, by superb painting skill, Famille Rose colors, 100 boys in parade with dragon and lantern dance, ri...
Porcelain
$8,710Sale Price|20% Off
H 4.73 in W 9.85 in D 7.09 in
19th Century Chinese Wooden Rectangular 'Mythical Beasts' Box
Located in Brea, CA
19th Century Chinese wooden rectangular 'Mythical Beasts' Box , it is maybe Zitan wood box, The hinged cover carved with a dragon, a phoenix, a qilin, a tortoise a fish and other cre...
Wood
19th Century Chinese Hardwood Sofa, circa 1860
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century Chinese hardwood three seater sofa, having wonderful classical hand carved and pierced scrolling foliate decoration with Dragons entwined. The seat w...
Hardwood
$1,969
H 9.45 in W 18.51 in D 5.52 in
19th Century antique Chinese Tea Table Lacquered with Porcelain inclusions
Located in Neguri, Vizcaya
Chinese black lacquerd tea table with gilt highlights, circa 1930's. Needs restauration in left side, but the design and style is precious because it reunites black lacquered with a...
Bentwood
The last imperial dynasty from 1644 to 1912 was a time of change in China, beginning with the invasion by Manchurian forces that ended the Ming dynasty and established the Shunzhi Emperor. The expansion of exportation and trade that had bolstered the arts during the Ming era continued, as Qing dynasty furniture involved the same attention to craftsmanship with expert construction techniques in hardwood pieces that were assembled with mortise and tenon joints rather than nails or glue. Together, these eras comprise a golden age of Chinese furniture design.
Ming-style furniture is simple and elegant with clean lines. Chairs of the period and other Ming furniture made an impression on Scandinavian modernist Hans Wegner and his streamlined seating, for example. Whereas Qing-style furniture is elaborate, with an increasing influence from the West leading to lavish carving inspired by the European Baroque and Rococo styles. And while many of the forms that define examples of the latter are common within classical Chinese furniture, such as curving and folding chairs as well as large screens, Qing designs are laden with ornamentation. Frequently, the carved motifs and inlaid designs in mother-of-pearl were auspicious, such as peonies for wealth or dragons for luck. Bats were symbols of happiness in the design of Qing furniture, with one of the characters in the word for bat, bianfu, being a homophone for fu, or “fortune.”
While several types of wood were used in the construction of Qing beds, tables, storage pieces and seating, today’s collectors know that the most prized were the rare rosewoods zitan and huanghuali. They were both sourced from Hainan, China’s largest island, and are marked by a rich luster that occurs naturally, without the application of lacquer or other decorative materials. Many of the most popular woods were imported from southeast Asia, adding to their value. Red sandalwood was also sought after for its durability and connection with Chinese medicine, with some chairs being made for health benefits.
Find a collection of antique Qing tea tables, stools, benches, decorative objects and more furniture on 1stDibs.
From Japanese handmade earthenware pottery, originating circa 14,500 B.C. and adorned with elaborate corded patterns known as jōmon, to natural elm case pieces and storage cabinets built in Qing dynasty–era China to mid-century Thai rice-paper charcoal rubbings, antique and vintage Asian art and furniture make for wonderful additions to all kinds of contemporary interiors.
Eastern elements elevate any home’s decor. Introduce zen sensibility to your living room, dining room and bedroom with the neutral color palettes and the natural materials such as rattan, bamboo and elm that we typically associate with traditional Asian furniture. Decorative handwoven embroideries and textiles originating from India and elsewhere on the continent, which can be draped over a bed or sofa or used as a wall hanging, can be as practical as they are functional, just as you wouldn’t seek out Japanese room-divider screens — often decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile — merely for privacy.
With everything from blanket chests to lighting fixtures to sculptures and carvings, it’s easy to tastefully bring serenity to your living space by looking to the treasures for which the East has long been known.
For British-born furniture designer Andrianna Shamaris, the Japanese concept of beauty in imperfection isn’t limited to her Wabi Sabi collection. She embraces it in her New York City apartment as well. In the living area, for instance, she retained the fireplace’s original black marble while swathing its frame and the rest of the room in bright white.
“We left the fireplace very clean and wabi-sabi, so that it blended into the wall,” says Shamaris, who further appointed the space with a hand-carved antique daybed whose plush pillows are upholstered in antique textiles from the Indonesian island of Sumba.
In the growing antique and vintage Asian art and furniture collection on 1stDibs, find ceramics from China, antiquities from Cambodia and a vast range of tables, seating, dining chairs and other items from Japan, India and other countries.