Chinese Export Furniture
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
Find a collection of antique Chinese Export tables, beds, cupboards, table lamps and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Chinese Export
Recognized Seller Listings
Chinese White and Navy Blue Patterned Handled Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white porcelain urn painted with a blue pattern featuring urns, furniture, and florals with blue scrolled handles on the neck.
Light wear."
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Navy Glazed Porcelain Parrot Statue
Located in Queens, NY
Vintage Chinese glazed porcelain statue of a navy blue parrot with a brown beak and talons perched atop green grasses.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Natural Design Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white, porcelain urn decorated in a blue scene of a bird perched on a flowering branch above water, and accented with two light blue scrolled hand...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Green Botanical Table Lamp on Wooden Base
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a vase painted with an intricate green motif of flora and dragon flies with brass hardware and a turned wooden base and top....
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Coromandel 4-Fold Screen with Graduated Tiered Panels
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (20th Century) black coromandel 4 fold screen with heron design and 4 graduated tier panels.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Antique Chinese Orange and Gold Floral Round Porcelain Table Lamps
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) round table lamps made from orange, luster porcelain vases with gold floral designs, mounted on brown wooden bases with patinated brass h...
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Pair Chinese Carved Hardwood Metal Pedestals Stands Tables
Located in London, GB
Pair Chinese Carved Hardwood Metal Pedestals Stands Tables
Chinese, 20th Century
Height 97cm, width 40cm, depth 49cm
This distinctive pair of Chinese pedestals, dating to the 20th...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Silver Card Case
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Card Case, circa 1885, embossed and chased with figural scenes on one side, and crythusanmum, a butterfly and two flydragons surrounding a single vacant shield-shaped ...
Category
1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Pair of Chinese Pink and White Porcelain Double Gourd Vases
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese (late 19th Century) white porcelain vases with pink pastoral scenes sweeping around the double gourd forms, and red and gold patterned bands at the bottoms, centers a...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese White and Blue Floral Porcelain Pots
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese white porcelain pots painted with large blue floral motifs and patterned bands at the tops and bases (PRICED AS PAIR).
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$18,000 / set
Two Polychrome Roosters
Located in Greenwich, CT
A pair of Chinese export glazed ceramic roosters with polychrome plumage in pinks, greens and orange with and striking red crowns and wattles, perched on weathered green striated tre...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
$4,800
Chinese White and Blue Dragon Design Porcelain Meiping Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th Century) white porcelain Meiping vase decorated in a dynamic blue dragon motif.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Silver Card Case
Located in London, GB
Chinese Export Silver Card Case, circa 1900, embossed and chased with a dragon on both sides and a vacant shield-shaped cartouche. Retailed by Kwong Man Shing, and made by Zhuo (卓).
...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
A Chinese huanghuali, wumu and mother-of-pearl watch holder
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, 2nd half 19th century
H. 22.5 x W. 30 x D. 12.5 cm
The pocket watch, an antique Swiss triple calendar Moon phace pocket watch in gunmetal case, dating from around 1860-1900, is marked Acier Garanti, Oxidage Inalterable, and is numbered. The stand, made of huanghuali (Dalbergia odorifera...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
2 Pairs of Antique Chinese Orange and White Design Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in Queens, NY
2 PAIRS of Antique Chinese (late 19th-early 20th Century) porcelain ginger jars with intricate orange and white designs and matching lids. (PRICED PER PAIR)
Condition: Good; Wear co...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
2 Chinese Coromandel 4-Fold Screens
Located in Queens, NY
2 Asian Chinese style (20th Century) black coromandel 4 fold screens with scene with people on one side and floral & bird design on back. (PRICED EACH)
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
$5,800 / item
Pair of Chinese Imari-Style Monumental Lidded Porcelain Urns
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese monumental lidded porcelain floor vases celebrating Japanese Imari ware in both palette and decoration, featuring central medallions of birds perched on flowering tre...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Navy Blue Botanical Design Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white, porcelain urn decorated with a blue botanical scene of an oversized peony emerging from a marsh under a bird...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Footed Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a patinated bronze urn carved with raised geometric patterned bands wrapping its form, sitting atop a round foot, and fitted with two curved...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal
Chinese Blue and White Dragon Motif Porcelain Meiping Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese white porcelain Meiping vase decorated in a swirling blue dragon motif.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Export Famille Rose Porcelain Large Dishes, circa 1765-1775
Located in Downingtown, PA
Chinese Export famille rose porcelain dishes,
circa 1765-1775.
The pair of Chinese Export famille rose large dishes are finely painted with a flowering branch design with two la...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Yuan Style White and Blue Dragon Motif Porcelain Pot
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese bulbous, white porcelain pot crafted in the Yuan Dynasty style, wrapped in a large scaled blue dragon on the body and decorative symbols ar...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Figurative Scene Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a white and blue baluster-shaped porcelain vase depicting a mother and children playing outside...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Silver Chinese Export Tea and Coffee Service, by Tuck Chang & Co., Shanghai
Located in London, GB
Silver Chinese Export tea and coffee service, by Tuck Chang & Co., Shanghai
Chinese, Late 19th century
Measures: Milk jug: height 8cm, width 14cm, depth 10cm
Coffee pot: height 25...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Tang Dynasty Pottery Camel
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese (Tang Dynasty) unglazed pottery camel with an open mouth and head turned with a double hump back.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
$49,000
Chinese Quing Dynasty Red Lacquered 4-Fold Screen
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese (Qing Dynasty 18/19th Century) 4 panel screen with a (restored) maroon lacquered background and finely decorated scene of figures and palace in a black lacquered frame.
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Lacquer, Paint, Wood
Pair of Asian Chinese (19th Cent) Red & Gilt Side Chairs
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Asian Chinese (19th Cent) red and gilt lacquered side chairs with filigree sides and back (PRICED PER Pair) (matching table #032840)
ONLY 3 available
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Chinese Off-White and Blue Symbol Patterned Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large, off-white porcelain urn painted with a blue pattern featuring Buddhist symbols and other shapes with accented blue scrolled handles.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Garden and Bird Design Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white and blue porcelain urn decorated with a bird amid a flowering garden, and accented in two navy scrolled handles along the neck.
Light wear...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Wooden Lacquered Rectangular Chest with Hand Painted Figural Scenes
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese Mid-Century rectangular hinged chest with black metal latch and two side ring handles, lacquered and hand painted featuring three women and one girl in two outdoor courtyard ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Imari-Style Orange and Gold Monumental Urn
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese monumental floor floor vase celebrating Japanese Imari ware in both palette and design, featuring medallions of natural scenes against an orange ground intricately decorated ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Green and Orange Lu Xing Wealth and Prosperity Deific Porcelain Figurine
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) glazed porcelain statue of Lu Xing, one of the deities of the three stars considered essential in Chinese astrology, each...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Asian Gilt Guan Yin Buddha
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese Asian style gilt carved figure of seated Guan Yin Buddha on a lotus base (20th Cent)
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Chinese Large Aubergine, Purple, and Maroon Porcelain Urn Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese porcelain urn-form vase in a rich aubergine color overlayed with a barely visible blue base, creating highs and lows that add dimension to the finish and form.
Slight imperf...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Framed 19th Century Chinese Landscape of House by a River
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese landscape painting with house by a river framed in black and red lacquer (19th Century).
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pair of Asian Rooster Finial Lidded Red Urns
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Asian Rooster Finial Lidded Red Urns
Category
20th Century Asian Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
$11,000 / set
Chinese Porcelain Filigree Garden Seat
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19/20th Cent) beige and aqua porcelain filigree garden seat / pedestal.
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Massive Rose Canton Porcelain Punch Bowl, Edmé Samson et Cie, Paris
By Edmé Samson
Located in Downingtown, PA
Massive Rose Canton Porcelain Punch bowl,
Edme Samson et Cie, Paris,
circa 1880
The massive beautiful bowl with unusual steep sides is...
Category
19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Tang Dynasty-Style Sancai Glazed Terra Cotta Woman Figure
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese Tang Dynasty-style terra cotta figure of a woman wearing robes bearing the Tang Dynasty's traditional tri-color glaze, or Sancai, utilizing brown, green and off-white...
Category
20th Century Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Chinese White and Blue Vine Motif Lidded Porcelain Ginger Jars
Located in Queens, NY
3 similar antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) lidded porcelain ginger jars with dark blue vine and floral motifs against white backgrounds, Greek key patterns around the necks, and ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Nature Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) large white, porcelain urn with a scene of blue flora and fauna, and two dark blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Light wear with some damage ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese White Porcelain Famille Rose Lidded Jars
Located in Queens, NY
PAIR of Chinese white porcelain famille rose jars painted with verdant trees inhabitated by insects growing up and across the fronts and charac...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Celadon-Glazed Molded 'Fish' Brush Pot
Located in New York, NY
The cylindrical body molded with overlapping waves and applied with leaping carp; the underside bearing a molded apocryphal Daoguang seal mark.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Celadon, Porcelain
Chinese Bone and Metal Dagger
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese-style (19th Century) dagger with a bone and silver-plate handle and sheath.
Condition: Good; Wear consistent with age and use
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Bone
Antique Chinese Export Silver Dragon Card Case
Located in New York, NY
Chinese export silver card case, ca 1910. Rectangular. Chased ornament on stippled ground. On recto, a blossoming prunus branch with armorial cartouche (vacant). On verso, a fanged a...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Antique Peking Chinese Carpet
Located in Closter, NJ
In the 1860s an organized carpet industry was established under imperial patronage in Peking. These carpets tended to have tighter and finer weaves than their Ningxia counterparts, o...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Pair of Chinese Export Silver Candlesticks
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Chinese Export Silver Candlesticks, each with coiled dragon chasing a fire pearl around the plain column, with the dragons rising in opposing directions to face each other....
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
$4,825 / set
Extremely Fine Chinese Silk Embroidered Bed-Cover for the Dutch Market
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese red silk, embroidered bed cover
Guangdong or Macao, mid-18th century
The red silk cover, one one side elaborately embroided in co...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Gold, Silver
Chinese White Figurative Scene Porcelain Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Early 20th Century) table lamp made from a white porcelain urn painted with a scene of children playing in orange, pink, and red, mounted on a brown wooden base and...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese Rose Quartz Toad
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese rose quartz figure of a toad standing on a teak base (20th Cent)
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Teak
$2,850
Antique Chinese Export Silver Cigar Case
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Chinese Export Silver cigar case; part of our diverse Asian silverware collection
This exceptional antique Chinese Export Silver (CES) ci...
Category
1910s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Silver
Chinese Off-White and Navy Blue Bird Motif Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) off-white, porcelain urn with a navy blue bird amid florals and two blue scrolled handles along the neck.
Light wear, hairline cracks."
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese White and Blue Chrysanthemum and Bird Porcelain Urn
Located in Queens, NY
"Antique Chinese (Late 19th Century) white and blue porcelain urn decorated with a bird amid flowering chrysanthemums, and accented with two navy scrolled handles along the neck.
Sl...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Han Dynasty-Style Patinated Bronze Lidded Pot
Located in Queens, NY
Chinese Han Dynasty-style copy of a bronze footed pot with three shaped legs, two bracket-shaped handles, a circular lid with a centered circular embellishment, a raised geometric pa...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal
Pair of Chinese Qing Style Mint Green Glazed Globular Porcelain Vases
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Chinese Qing Dynasty style Yongzheng period (20th century) mint green, glazed porcelain vases with globular forms influenced by West Asian cul...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Pink Floral and Bird Design Table Lamp
Located in Queens, NY
"Chinese pink ceramic table lamp made from a baluster-shaped vase decorated with colorful birds, florals and koi on a wooden base with brass hardware.
Vase is cracked near the socke...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Chinese White Green and Yellow Vegetal Winter Melon Porcelain Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Antique Chinese (early 20th century) winter melon-form porcelain vase decorated with an incised, white bottom half that grows into verdant abstracted vegetal and peacock shapes on th...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Style Porcelain Temple Jar
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (19th/20th Cent) porcelain temple jar with blue & brown decoration on a white field.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Vintage Chinese Gold and Green Tole Palm Tree Table Lamps
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Vintage Chinese tole table lamps in the shape of palm trees, painted with golden leaves and green trunks, resting on octagonal bases and mounted with brass hardware. (PRICED ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Brass
Pair of Chinese Polychrome and Lacquer Door Panels
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Asian Chinese style (late 19th/early 20th Century) red painted doors inset with pierced & relief carved polychrome lacquered panels (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Chinese Export Furniture
Materials
Wood
$22,500 / set
Chinese Export furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export furniture made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and China pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Europa Antiques, Wang Hing & Co., Luen Wo, and Hung Chong & Co.. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $40 and tops out at $216,780 while the average work can sell for $1,998.
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