Japanese Tansu with Hand-Forged Hardware

Japanese storage tansu chests were used to hold clothing and other personal effects in a 19th Century Japanese home. Because Japanese home...

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...

Japanese storage tansu chests were used to hold clothing and other personal effects in a 19th Century Japanese home. Because Japanese home...

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...

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 exceptional sideboard features richly figured Makassar veneers, a black glass top and ten drawers. It's quite rare to see veneer applied vertically to relatively shallow drawers...

A large early Meiji period Japanese tansu/sideboard A really nice mid/late 19th C. Japanese sideboard/tansu. It was likely to be used as a coun...

A large heavily patinated early Meiji period Tansu/sideboard constructed in cedar with two sliding doors & three drawers. Original forged iron hardware. Many age old repairs.

Great pair of 19th century Japanese Tansu cabinets. Completely untouched with a beautiful faded patina. Still very sturdy with typical tip out panels. Rare to find one, let alone a p...

Very old Japanese large sideboard (Tansu). Made in the Meiji period (1860s-1900s). The material is paulownia wood, a high quality material. It is a box type with abundant storage ca...

A Japanese 19th century double-section Sendai clothing tansu (Isho-dansu) with drawers and elaborate handcut iron hardware. Born during the 19th century...

A very fine 19th century inlaid mahogany bowfront sideboard, the moulded top raised over shaped frieze with centred long drawer flanked with two short deep drawers, all inlaid with b...