Chinoiserie Furniture
CHINOISERIE STYLE
Emerging in the 17th century, chinoiserie appropriated the aesthetics and imagery of popular East Asian design for European-made versions. Reflecting the exoticization of China, Japan and other countries in this era, the word directly translates from French to “Chinese-esque,” which reveals its shortcomings as a style of furniture and decor that often stereotypically and reductively mimics Asian culture rather than showcasing and paying tribute to its artistic traditions.
The enthusiastically decorative chinoiserie style was propelled by influential tastemakers including French King Louis XIV, whose Trianon de Porcelaine in 1670 was inspired by Chinese architecture. Expanded trade between the East and West led to a demand for porcelain, lacquer objects, silk and other goods, which further informed the fanciful furniture being crafted in Europe.
Artisans working in the chinoiserie style used materials and elements like pagoda shapes, bamboo, lacquer surfaces, bird and flower motifs and other interpretations of Asian design on pieces that were frequently set against vibrant wallcoverings. This whimsical approach yielded chinoiserie furniture that boasted dramatic flourishes drawing on the natural world and reflected the dominance of Rococo during the 18th century.
As chinoiserie was shaped by approximations of Asian design by European creators, it had regional variations, such as Chinese Chippendale in England where cabinets, chairs and tea tables had wooden fretwork designs and “japanned” surfaces intended to resemble lacquer work that was created in East Asia. In North America, furniture makers in Boston and New York integrated chinoiserie-painted scenes into Queen Anne furniture.
Antique chinoiserie furniture has continued to be fashionable, from its popularity with decorators of the Hollywood Regency era — James Mont, Tommi Parzinger, William Haines and Samuel Marx favored the style — to contemporary interior designers, although it brings with it a complex history.
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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Style: Chinoiserie
Red Chinoiserie Oriental Coffee Table with Removable Tole Metal Serving Tray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage red chinoiserie oriental coffee table with removable tole metal serving tray. Item features an oval tole metal serving tray, red and gold...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Metal
Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Chinoiserie Chic Meets Laid-Back Luxury
Located in Dallas, TX
77230 Antique Chinese Peking Rug, 09'00 x 11'04.
This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a variety of elegant floral motifs spread across a cream field. Each of t...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Qing Dynasty Famille Rose and Blue Porcelain Vase 1700s Kanxi Period
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Beautiful tall porcelain colorful Chinese vase with depictions of birds and other flora and fauna.
The neck of this curvy vessel boasts large Orchids in pink against a deep blue ba...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of 19th Century Samson Vases
By Samson & Cie
Located in London, GB
A very ornate pair of Samson Paris porcelain vases, entirely hand-painted in Cantonese chinoiserie fashion, heavily gilded, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Chinoiserie Painted Five-Drawer Console or Altar Table
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Inspired Chinese console with an unusual mixture of techniques and materials. Featuring five drawers with carved scroll fronts decorated with chinoiserie style paintings of grasshopp...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Pair of Chinoiserie Style Asian Modern Lacquered Nightstands, Mid-Century
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Gorgeous pair of Asian Modern chinoiserie style nightstands. These Mid-Century stands are in remarkable vintage condition with only light signs of age. The glossy black lacquer has a...
Category
1960s American Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Brass
Dragon Chinese Peking Rug
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful Chinese Peking rug with a dragon medallion motif on an ivory colored field and soft baby blue border. Size is uncommon for its type.
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Antique Near Pair of Handcrafted, Chinese Folding Traveller’s Chairs W. Webbing
Located in Lisse, NL
Two very stylish and highly decorative Asian chairs.
These all-handcrafted early 20th century Chinese folding chairs are a rare find. The wonder...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Cane, Wood
Pair of Asian Gilt Metal Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pair of Asian gilt metal lamps, probably Chinese, circa 1950s. The price noted includes the shades. They have been rewired and are ready to use.
Category
1950s Chinese Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Metal
Tankard with Famille Rose Decoration, Bow C5145
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Baluster-shaped tankard, decorated with a pattern taken form the Chinese, in the famille rose-verte palette. It is amusing to note how the house on a hill in the original has been me...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Large Chinoiserie Style Urns or Vases on Pedestals of Glazed Terracotta
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of large chinoiserie style urns or vases on pedestals of glazed terracotta
Measurements:
Item A:
Pedestal: H 31.29 in, D 12.99 in, W 13.38 in
Total height with vase 45.66 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Terracotta
Asian Wood Panel Paintings Diptych Brass Hardware Flora and Fauna Scene Chinese
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Vintage Han Palace Art Co. scroll framed oil painting wood diptych carved panels. The original tag on back. This is a vintage piece from the 1950s or 1960s. It shows signs of natural...
Category
Late 20th Century Taiwanese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Chinese Sculptured and Painted Clay Figure of an Elderly Man, 19th Century
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Chinese sculptured and painted clay figure of an elderly man, 19th century. Partly worn off paint and probably missing a pair of feet.
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Clay
Teapot in the White, Prunus Decorated, Bow, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Drum-shape teapot with applied double-prunus decoration, in imitation of the Chinese. Pots of this form and date are rare, and this example is unusual in the quality of its body and ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Bowl with Chinoiserie Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1752
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of Bow porcelain, decorated in ‘wet’ famille rose colours; featuring a peony, a bird on a branch, and another in flight. Sacred Scrolls to the interior.
A superb ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinoiserie Side Table
Located in Stockbridge, GA
19th century French chinoiserie side table.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinoiserie Tea Canister Tole Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Black-on-gold tole lamp is decorated with engravings of doubly repeated Chinese figures in a fantasy garden, as well as bands of Greek Revival motif top and bottom. Lamp sits on black wood base. Height dimension includes harp. Electrified for regular US bulbs. Label reads "Frederick Cooper Lamps...
Category
1930s American Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Metal
Chinese Red Lacquer & Brass Side Table Removable Ice Chest Style Hoof Foot Base
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome Chinese red lacquer and brass ice chest, planter, accent table with galvanized insert and lid on hoof foot style removable base. This piece is in wonderful vintage condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Brass
Turkish Texile Bolster Rug Pillow
Located in New York, NY
Pillow made from a mid-20th century Turkish textile. Bolster size. 11'' x 24''.
Category
20th Century Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Foam
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Accent Rug in Cerulean Blue and Cream
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Peking accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cerulean blue field, cream medallion, border, and corner spandrels, and dark blue guard borders.
Me...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Chinoiserie Credenza or Sideboard
Located in Dallas, TX
This stunning exceptionally sized sleek credenza or sideboard, channeling old Hollywood with a touch of the orient. Made of solid wood, featuring a cust...
Category
1970s Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Brass
Armchair, Antique Chinoiserie Style with Silk Upholstery
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique chinoiserie armchair is a charming example of the Asian influence on European furnishings, with a tailored architecture, ebonized finish and hand painted gold scenery on almo...
Category
Early 20th Century French Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Exquisite Pair of Decorative Pillows
Located in Austin, TX
A pair of exquisite pillows made of Chinese 18th century silk embroidered floral pattern fragments in soft gold color and antique tassels fringes and ri...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Silk
Mid-Century Chinese Wicker Horse
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Mid-Century Chinese wicker horse with a contagious exuberance and one hoof balanced benevolently on a swallow. The 2nd century bronze sculpture used as in...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wicker
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Romantic Chinoiserie Chic Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77330 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Romantic Chinoiserie Style 04'01 x 06'09. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a rounded open floral medallion floating in...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Navy Blue Ivory Traditional Chinese Peking Rug
Located in New York, NY
Stunning deep blue and ivory accent full pile condition antique Chinese Peking rug, circa 1920.
Measures: 4' x 6'9".
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Set of Midcentury Chinoiserie Style Lounge Chairs by Century Chair Company
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of horseshoe armchairs with "scrubbed white" finish by the Century Chair Company, 1987. Please confirm item location (NY or NJ) with d...
Category
1980s American Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood, Upholstery
Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style
Located in Dallas, TX
72991 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style. Framed by an intricate blue border, this antique rug boasts a classic blue chinoiserie design that will never go out of style...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Tapestry Wall Decoration Chinoiserie Style, Carpet, Spain, 1970s
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
*Only the mat, the frame is not included
Typical decorative objects on the walls of many Spanish homes in the middle of the 20th century. Normally they were scenes of exotic animals...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Cotton
French 19th Century Aesthetic Movement Chinoiserie Timepiece by Susse Frères
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A very fine bronze brown and gilt patina French 19th century timepiece in the oriental Chinese taste.
In an Archaic style bell with molded relief dragons circling body, surmounted by...
Category
1860s French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Fantastic Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A fantastic late 19th century Chinese Peking rug with large stylized Shou character central medallion flanked by mirrored images of a deer under a tree, with a phoenix and bat flying...
Category
1880s Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Vintage Chinoiserie Painting
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Old painting "Chinoiserie" with a wooden and sculpted frame especially made for the painting. France, 19th century.
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood, Paint
Mason's Ironstone Handled Desert Bowl in Fence Vase and Doves Pattern, Ca 1825
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a very attractive two handled shallow Desert Bowl or Dish made by Mason's Ironstone Pottery, in the early 19th century.
The bowl is decorated in the Fence Vase and Dove chin...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Ironstone
Rare and Fine Antique English Spode Ironstone Kakiemon Decor Warming Dish
By Spode
Located in Charleston, SC
Exceedingly rare antique English Spode ironstone Kakiemon decor warming dish.
A/F slight clips to leaf near handle.
Pattern number as recorded o...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Ironstone
Porcelain on Metal Fine Chinoiserie Occupied Japan Art Deco Box
Located in San Diego, CA
Porcelain on metal fine chinoiserie occupied Japan Art Deco box, beautiful and rare petite box delicate and painted with metal inserts, a couple of tiny...
Category
20th Century Japanese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Rattan Sunburst Mirror with Chinoiserie Tiki Accents, Spain, 1950s
Located in Barcelona, ES
A highly decorative mid-20th century mirror handcrafted in rattan with pyrography decorations and chinoiserie or Tiki accents.
Spain, 1950-1960.
This eye-catching sunburst mirror com...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wicker, Cane, Rattan, Mirror
Pair of Gilt Bamboo Style Diminutive Children’s Chairs
Located in Stamford, CT
Unusual pair of diminutive gilt metal bamboo children’s chairs. Burnished gold gilt finish with red undertones. Unusual small size was designed as a children's chair. Small size woul...
Category
Late 20th Century American Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Metal
Chinoiserie Style Painted and Decorated Bergere
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Chinoiserie style bergere in cream finish with parcel gilt and sage linen upholstery.
Category
Late 20th Century Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chapman Floral Lamps, Pair
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Beautiful pair of chinoiserie style hand-painted floral motif table lamps by Chapman. Oval shaped glazed ceramic bodies feature a dimensional two-s...
Category
1980s Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Brass
Bronze and Silver Low Table by Philip La Verne, American, New York
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional coffee table by famed furniture designer Phillip & Kelvin LaVerne, American, New York, signed. The complex chinoiserie design features highly detail views of Imperial ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Silver Leaf
19th Century French Chinoiserie Style Mahogany Table Attributed Gabriel Viardot
Located in New York, NY
A magnificent 19th century French hand-carved chinoiserie style mahogany center-table with mother-of-pearl inlaid marquetry top attributed to Gabriel Viardot. This magnificent mahogany table has been hand-carved with Chinese chinoiserie decor depicting chinoiserie figures holding umbrellas and other Chinese motif inlaid. Around the edges of the rectangular table is magnificently detailed and adorned open wood work, which gives the piece a different dimension of class and elegance. The top of the table is beautifully designed with a mother-of-pearl inlaid marquetry. Tinted wood table with rectangular tray with Asian decor inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting peaches and beauties holding umbrellas. The carved openwork crosses of Chinese motifs rests on four magnificently carved curved legs with lions feet holding up the table. Found at the top of each leg are beautifully chased doré bronze mounts depicting foo dog masks. France, circa 1890.
Gabriel Viardot is a famous Parisian cabinetmaker who inherited the family factory in around 1860. He manufactured carved wood furniture...
Category
1890s French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Wooden Sculptures of Buddha on Bases with Polychromy Traces
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare pair of Buddha wooden heads sculptures , with polychrome traces - smiling and peaceful -
Rested on a pair of wood capitals, same era. SET. Sui...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
French Red Lacquered Chinoiserie Table
Located in Dallas, TX
A French red lacquered chinoiserie table with gilt decoration. the surface is decorated with a figure and garden scene with stairs. This table ...
Category
1930s French Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Porcelain Famille Rose Tea Cup or Soup Set
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful vintage porcelain famille rose three-piece hand-decorated teacup and saucer or soup set with lid, in the Chinoiserie style, circa mid-20th century. The three (3) pieces m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hong Kong Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Lacquered and Burled Wood Console Table
Located in Norwood, NJ
Painted and Burled Wood Console Table. Chinoiserie console table. Painted in two tones of eggshell. Beautiful finished burl wood top
Category
Mid-20th Century American Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
Chinese Carved Wood Standing Figure of Guanyin in the Ming Dynasty Style
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A Chinese carved wood standing figure of Guanyin in the Ming dynasty style, with polychrome application, the hair tied back into an elaborate high chignon, with her left hand raised,...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
Oil Painting Still Life Collage on Burlap
By Jacques Lamy
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Oil painting and collage on burlap of a blue and white Chinese jar set in a deconstructed reality with an evocative mixture of techniques. ...
Category
20th Century American Chinoiserie Furniture
Wool 20th Century Gallery Size Brown Yellow Khotan Pomegranate Design Rug
Located in New York, NY
Authentic early 20th century Khotan rug with repetitive pomegranate motif in predominant tones in brown, salmon and mustard yellow.
Measures: 5'7" x 11'
Khotan, an ancient Budd...
Category
1910s East Turkestani Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Small English Chinoiserie Plate
Located in New York, NY
Small English chinoiserie plate. William IV Staffordshire plate with charming brightly hued oriental themed scene of figures with parasol,, hamper a...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Chinoiserie Table w/ Painted Landscape Scenes over Black Lacquered Wood
Located in Miami, FL
Black-lacquered chinoiserie work table with polychrome painted scenes on trestle base with hinged lift-top exposing lidded compartments and open cubbies, with original key plate in t...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
Tea Bowl and Saucer, Richard Chaffers of Liverpool, circa 1760
By Richard Chaffers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A porcelain tea bowl and saucer from one of the Liverpool makers, painted with a chinoiserie scene. The use of the white porcelain to form the shin...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Italian Chinoiserie Vase
Located in New York, NY
Large Italian chinoiserie vase. Monumental and rare Giovanni Poulard Prad floral and gilt-painted vase with all over floral ground scrolling gilt grape leaf handles centering two dif...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Chinese Green Family Porcelain Planters, 1910s-1920s
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Pair of green family porcelain planter and their plates. White background decorated with polychromatic enamels representing on the body of de vase a plants decoration with cherry blo...
Category
1910s Chinese Vintage Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Pair of 19th Century English Ironstone Lamp Bases in Pink and Gold.
Located in Dallas, TX
A pair very large English ironstone urns with lids that have been converted to lamp bases. These pink glazed urns have a an overall gilded decoration as well as polychrome painted b...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Ironstone, Wood
Pair of English Regency Carved Dragon Wall Plaques
Located in New York, NY
Pair of English Regency style (19th Century) red and gold painted horizontal dragon wall plaques (PRICED AS Pair).
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wood
French Chinoiserie Hardstone Snuff Box
Located in New Orleans, LA
A marvelously carved chinoiserie motif adorns the lid of this incredible 19th-century French tabatière or snuff box. The charming scene is intricately crafted in the form of a boating figure who holds aloft an umbrella formed of yellow gold, while the box itself is crafted from attractive brown hardstone mounted with stunning yellow gold "waves." Enchanting and beautifully executed, the rare snuff box is an incredible example of the creative artistry of these delightful boxes, as well as the highly popular chinoiserie style.
Inhaling snuff, or snuffing, as it is also called, was a popular social ritual among the European elite from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Over these 300 years, master artisans created and designed elegant snuff boxes using...
Category
19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Stone, Gold
Oriental Style Gilt Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Clock Set
Located in London, GB
This clock set was designed in France in the late 19th century in a fanciful ‘Oriental’ style. The set is comprised of a mantel clock and a pair of candelabra, all of which have been...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze, Enamel
Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, French European Meets Chinoiserie Chic
Located in Dallas, TX
70603 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'01 x 11'09.
French European meets Chinoiserie chic in this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug. The intrinsic botanical design and r...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Furniture
Materials
Wool
Chinoiserie furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinoiserie 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 decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinoiserie furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Asia, and East Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Mason's Ironstone, Schumacher, Century Furniture, and Bow Porcelain. 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 $21 and tops out at $216,780 while the average work can sell for $1,701.
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