Japanese Tansu with Black Color Hardware

This 2-part antique Japanese tansu has lovely old-patina wood and and attractive hand-forged iron handles and other hardware. It can be used as-shown, stacked or separated and raised on simple metal stands. When separated, the two drawer sets make excellent side chests. Japanese storage tansu chests...

An exceptionally original 19th century household storage coffer in the Tianjin Style. Tianjin is a large city in Northeast China that acts as the port of Beijing. It was a prosperous city and the furniture made there was known for is solidity and clean, balanced lines. Tianjin storage chests typically feature heavy brass handles and lock plates. All hardware on this chest is original and the patina on the wood is aged and lovely; natural oxblood lacquer, which has rubbed off in some areas and darkened in other areas due to more than a century of use. Tianjin chests usually have three large drawers across the top two large doors below. The piece was probably part of a dowry and exhibited in a highly visible part of the home. The whitish deposits on the legs suggest that the piece sat on a terra cotta...

This impressive Mid-Century Modern (or Brutalist sideboard) is made from straight-grained light walnut veneers applied to alternating raised dentils. The four doors feature brass sci...

This exquisite Indo-Saracenic sideboard, assembled in the 21st century, uses sustainable mango wood for durability and ecological responsibility. Painted in a soothing light teal, mo...

Korean elm chest with original brass hardware. The chest has a nice patina. Inside has three pull-out drawers and an open space.

A most charming Tansu. The sliding doors are covered in white Japanese hand made rice paper in traditional shell pattern and fitted with oval bronze hardware. Behind the doors a larg...

Japan, ca. late 19th century. A fabulous tall and narrow tansu from the late Meiji Period in old red finish. Features handmade wood construction with six tightly fitted storage drawe...

This is an old, large sideboard made in Japan. The furniture was made during the Meiji period (1860s-1900s) and has a deep black paint throughout, giving it a stately appearance. The...