Mid-19th Century Red Lacquered Sideboard from Shanxi, China
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese 19th century sideboard cabinet with orginal lacquer. Front and top with deep dark red lacquer, sides with black lacquer. Features double bi-fold doors revealing a storage...
Brass
French Modern Neoclassical Chinese Red Lacquer Sideboard by Jacques Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
Two Rare and Exceptional French Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Sideboards in Chinese red lacquer with Chinese red glass tops by Jacques Adnet, France, 1940-1950.
Wrought Iron
Small Red Chinese Console Sideboard, circa 1880
Located in Round Top, TX
The red lacquered polished finish with contrasting black top on this small Chinese sideboard provides a modern look allowing it to serve well in a contemporary setting. The original...
Metal
Red Lacquer Cabinet with Original Hand-Painted Decorations, Gansu Province
Located in Kastrup, DK
A cabinet from Gansu Province, crafted in elm wood and preserved with its original lacquered surfaces. The front features a deep red lacquer, framed by hand-painted decorations of fl...
Elm
Untitled (Red Door Coffer), c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 20th-century coffer from Shanxi province has a streamlined design and plenty of rustic appeal. Originally configured to open from the top, the chest has been modified to o...
Pine
Antique Chinese Red Lacquered Faux Bamboo Sideboard, circa 1880
Located in BOSTON, MA
Antique Chinese red lacquered faux bamboo sideboard from Shanxi province showing great depth of color and a robust bamboo form with beautiful frame paneled doors that open to a deep ...
Wood
A Red Lacquer Chinese Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
A handsome Chinese sideboard finished in a vibrant red lacquer, featuring a classic long rectangular form with a beautifully balanced arrangement of drawers and doors. Five small dra...
Elm
Antique Small Red Lacquered Chinese Sideboard
Located in Round Top, TX
The quality of this cabinet is largely due to the exceptional lacquered finish over the original deep red paint which brings the piece to life, creating a desire to touch it. Where t...
Wood, Paint, Lacquer
Red Lacquered Chinese Sideboard
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th century red lacquered sideboard with three drawers, and two bi-folding doors from Northern China.
Pagoda Red Collection #: GDH027A
Keywo...
Red Lacquered Chinese Sideboard with Four Drawers
Located in Chicago, IL
This bold sideboard is the perfect focal point for any room. Originally from Hebei, China the piece was made from reclaimed elm wood and red lacquer. The piece features mortise and t...
Elm, Lacquer
Chinese Red Lacquer Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese Red Coffer with 4 drawers, 2 cabinets from Shanxi province; original laquer and hardware.
Red Lacquered Chinese Low Chest with Three Shelves
Located in Chicago, IL
This handsome low chest is from Shandong, China and was made from reclaimed elm wood. The piece features mortise and tenon joinery, red lacquer and three shelves for storage. You can...
Elm, Lacquer
Antique Red Lacquered Chinese Sideboard/Console
Located in Round Top, TX
The stunning color is all original on this Chinese sideboard. The deep, rich red is complimented by areas where the paint has worn off through many years of use, revealing the natura...
Wood, Paint, Lacquer
Chinese Red Lacquer Two-Drawer Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
Handsome, warm wood and a well-worn maroon colored patina accentuate this side chest's mature aura. The sizable drawers sit above a relief carved center panel—decorated with a flower...
Elm, Lacquer
Antique Chinese Red Lacquered Sideboard
Located in Round Top, TX
The rich color and finish on this stunning antique Chinese sideboard is a combination of elements. The original red painted finish has been worn down in places to reveal the natural ...
19th Century Red Lacquer Chinese Console Cabinet Sideboard
Located in Round Top, TX
The red lacquered polished finish on this Chinese sideboard or console provides a modern look allowing it to serve well in a contemporary setting. The original red painted finish wa...
Elm, Lacquer, Paint
Red Lacquer Chinese Cabinet with a Pair of Doors
Located in Chicago, IL
This red lacquer cabinet is from Shandong, China and was made from pine, elm, and lacquer, circa 1920. Wear consistent with age and use; the piece has been restored.
Elm, Pine, Lacquer
Red Lacquer Chinese Cabinet with a Pair of Doors
Located in Chicago, IL
This red lacquer cabinet is from Shandong, China and was made from pine, elm, and lacquer, circa 1920. Wear consistent with age and use; the piece has been restored.
Elm, Pine, Lacquer
Red Lacquer Chinese Cabinet with a Pair of Doors
Located in Chicago, IL
This red lacquer cabinet is from Shandong, China and was made from pine, elm, and lacquer, circa 1920. Wear consistent with age and use; the piece has been restored.
Elm, Pine, Lacquer
Red Lacquer Chinese Cabinet with a Pair of Doors
Located in Chicago, IL
This red lacquer cabinet is from Shandong, China and was made from pine, elm, and lacquer, circa 1920. Wear consistent with age and use; the piece has been restored.
Elm, Pine, Lacquer
Antique Red Lacquered Chinese Kitchen Island Sideboard
Located in Round Top, TX
The highly polished lacquered finish gives this cabinet a sleek look and brings out the depth of the red paint. This long sideboard with three drawers and open shelving below is also...
Wood
Late 19th Century Chinese Red Lacquer Sideboard
Located in Chicago, IL
This late 19th century chest, crafted in northern China, started its life as a storage trunk with a solid lacquered front. Our team of craftspeople skilled in the art of traditional ...
Brass
19th Century Chinese Red Lacquered Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th century Chinese red lacquered elmwood coffer with four doors, brass hardware, and beautiful well worn finish. Pagoda Red Collection #: BJB058 Keywords: Sideboard, buff...
Elm
19th Century Chinese Red Lacquered Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th century Chinese red lacquered elmwood coffer with four doors and brass hardware.
Pagoda Red Collection #: CAH015
Keywords: Coffer, side...
Elm
19th Century Chinese Red Lacquer Coffer
Located in Chicago, IL
A 19th century Chinese red lacquer coffer with four drawers, two bi-folding doors and brass hardware.
Pagoda Red Collection #: CAH029
Keywords:...
Elm
Vintage Chinese Red Lacquer Lute Table
Located in Chicago, IL
A vintage Chinese table made of Chinese northern elmwood with a red lacquer finish and woven top.
A Chinese Red Lacquer Sideboard Buffet
Located in Austin, TX
Clean and simple lines of classic Chinese design with four drawers and four doors. Original red lacquer, woven rattan top, natural sides. Interior has one shelf on each side. Plenty ...
Elm
Red Lacquered Chinese Sideboard with Five Drawers and Three Shelves
Located in Chicago, IL
This sideboard is from Shanxi, China and was made from reclaimed elm wood. The piece features mortise and tenon joinery, five drawers and three shelves below for ample storage. You c...
Elm, Lacquer
Chinese Oxblood Lacquer Console
Located in Chicago, IL
Below the rectangular top, four sizeable drawers sit above a central storage cabinet covered by folding double-hinged doors. The interior is outfitted with a large removable shelf. W...
Elm, Lacquer
Antique Striking Red Painted Lacquered Chinese Sideboard, circa 1800s
Located in Round Top, TX
The richness of this original red painted Chinese sideboard is in the aged finish. The red paint is all original, but has been worn down in some areas to the natural wood beneath and...
Chinese Red-Lacquered Sideboard with Four Doors and Restoration
Located in Chicago, IL
This red-lacquered Chinese sideboard was made from reclaimed pine wood with traditional nail-less joinery. The red-lacquer has been enhanced with a sophisticated French polish finish...
Pine, Lacquer
Chinese Red-Lacquered Sideboard with Four Doors and Restoration
Located in Chicago, IL
This red-lacquered Chinese sideboard was made from reclaimed pine wood with traditional nail-less joinery. The red lacquer has been enhanced with a sophisticated French polish finish...
Pine, Lacquer
Chinese Red-Lacquered Sideboard with Four Doors and Restoration
Located in Chicago, IL
This red-lacquered Chinese sideboard was made from reclaimed pine wood with traditional nail-less joinery. The red lacquer has been enhanced with a sophisticated French polish finish...
Pine, Lacquer
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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