Qing Furniture
QING STYLE
The last imperial dynasty from 1644 to 1912 was a time of change in China, beginning with the invasion by Manchurian forces that ended the Ming dynasty and established the Shunzhi Emperor. The expansion of exportation and trade that had bolstered the arts during the Ming era continued, as Qing dynasty furniture involved the same attention to craftsmanship with expert construction techniques in hardwood pieces that were assembled with mortise and tenon joints rather than nails or glue. Together, these eras comprise a golden age of Chinese furniture design.
Ming-style furniture is simple and elegant with clean lines. Chairs of the period and other Ming furniture made an impression on Scandinavian modernist Hans Wegner and his streamlined seating, for example. Whereas Qing-style furniture is elaborate, with an increasing influence from the West leading to lavish carving inspired by the European Baroque and Rococo styles. And while many of the forms that define examples of the latter are common within classical Chinese furniture, such as curving and folding chairs as well as large screens, Qing designs are laden with ornamentation. Frequently, the carved motifs and inlaid designs in mother-of-pearl were auspicious, such as peonies for wealth or dragons for luck. Bats were symbols of happiness in the design of Qing furniture, with one of the characters in the word for bat, bianfu, being a homophone for fu, or “fortune.”
While several types of wood were used in the construction of Qing beds, tables, storage pieces and seating, today’s collectors know that the most prized were the rare rosewoods zitan and huanghuali. They were both sourced from Hainan, China’s largest island, and are marked by a rich luster that occurs naturally, without the application of lacquer or other decorative materials. Many of the most popular woods were imported from southeast Asia, adding to their value. Red sandalwood was also sought after for its durability and connection with Chinese medicine, with some chairs being made for health benefits.
Find a collection of antique Qing tea tables, stools, benches, decorative objects and more furniture on 1stDibs.
Style: Qing
Color: Blue
Rare Antique Kangxi 1662–1722 Chinese Porcelain Plate Galloping Horses
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare thinly potted antique Chinese porcelain plate, fully decorated. 5 galloping horses, 1 in the centre, 4 in the border. The border also has 4 endless waves.
Handcraf...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of White & Blue Chinese Ceramic / Porcelain Spoons, Double Happiness
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A wonderfully hand-painted pair of Chinese blue & white ceramic spoons circa 1850. They bear double happiness signs and wonderful, sculptural shape. A gr...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Fine Indigo Blue Chinese Geometric Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely knotted antique Chinese rug in excellent condition, distinguished by a tone-on-tone Indigo blue palette and by a geometric pattern based on an infinite repeat, honeycom...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Wool
Vintage Floral Design Famille Verte Porcelain Floor Vase
By Bo Jia for Middle Kingdom
Located in Manassas Park, VA
This large vintage floor vase is a traditional porcelain vessel from Jingdezhen, a town long distinguished by imperial patronage. The lively ...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Turquoise Glazed Porcelain Seated Guanyin Figure
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A very fine and attractive Chinese Qing Dynasty turquoise glazed figure of Guanyin dating from the 19th Century or possibly earlier. The hollow biscuit porcelain figurine...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Decorative mid century ceramic ginger jar
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Decorative mid century ceramic ginger jar circa 1960.
Good quality piece of decorative blue and white china, we used these jars for many years in our showroom for decoration and dis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Pottery
Chinese Late Qing Dynasty Period South Sea Blue Glazed Ceramic Planter
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Chinese late Qing Dynasty period ceramic planter circa 1900 with south sea blue glaze, tapering lines and kiln marks. Immerse yourself in the timeless allure of Chinese artistry with this ceramic planter from the late Qing Dynasty period, circa 1900. This piece echoes the grace and charm of traditional Chinese ceramics, offering a historical slice of China's illustrious past and a striking addition to any antique collection or living space.
This planter mesmerizes with its alluring south sea blue glaze, a hue that embodies the tranquil depths of the ocean and the expansive sky. The captivating color palette, combined with its tapering lines, grants this piece an air of aesthetic tranquility and classic elegance.
The planter's form is an ode to the traditional Chinese design ethos. Its gently curving silhouette exudes an organic feel, an echo of the natural world. Notably, the kiln marks visible on the planter speak volumes of its authentic origin and age, while also adding a dash of rustic charm.
Crafted during the late Qing Dynasty, this ceramic planter is not merely a decorative piece but a tangible link to China's rich ceramic heritage. If you are someone seeking to add a touch of historic charm to your decor, this south sea blue glazed planter is a perfect choice.
With its tranquil color palette and timeless design, this antique Chinese planter...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Blue-and-White Vase
Located in Norton, MA
A Chinese blue-and-white vase with covered, with "Reverse" cloud designs surrounding figural scenes in reserve.
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Art Japanese Vase Arita, Artist Fujii Shumei Winter Landscape Born, 1936
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare piece with matching storage box.
A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei
Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii's specialty is the technique ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Larger Antique Chinese Porcelain Ca 1700 Kangxi Period Period Fenghuang Plate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Very nicely decorated and moulded dish from the Kangxi period.
Central scene of two fenghuang in a landscape with flowers and rocks. The rim with compartments of flowers, frogdril...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Art Japanese Vase Arita, Artist Fujii Shumei Winter Landscape Born, 1936
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare piece with matching storage box.
A superb blue and white porcelain vase, with a landscape. Made by Fuji Shumei
Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii's specialty is the technique ...
Category
20th Century Japanese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Art Japanese Bowl Arita, Artist Fujii Shumei Leaf Landscape Born 1936
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare piece.
A superb blue and white porcelain Dish bowl, with a leaf pattern. Made by Fuji Shumei
Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii's specialty is the technique of drawing a mount...
Category
20th Century Japanese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Art 45CM Japanese Dish Arita, Artist Fujii Shumei Leaf Landscape Born, 1936
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Lovely and rare piece.
A superb blue and white porcelain Dish bowl, with a leaf pattern. Made by Fuji Shumei
Fujii Mr. Aki Fujii's specialty is the technique of drawing a mount...
Category
20th Century Japanese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Blue and White Porcelain Vase with Foo Dogs and Double Happiness
Located in Miami, FL
A Qing Chinese porcelain vase with baluster-form, hand-painted with cobalt blue decoration of "shuang-xi" or "double happiness" symbol representing happiness in marriage, amid contin...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Platter or Large Plate Blue & White, Qing Qianlong Ca 1770
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a good Chinese porcelain circular Platter or large plate, made for the export (Canton) market, during the middle of the 18th century, Qing-Qianlong period.
The plate is we...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Chinese Porcelain Dish Blue and White Hand Painted, Qing Qianlong
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautifully hand-painted Chinese porcelain Dish, dating to the middle of the 18th century, Qing, Qianlong period, circa 1750.
The dish is circular, well potted, with rib...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Petite Chinese Blue and White Dish, C. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th century porcelain saucer is a lovely example of Chinese blue-and-white ceramics. The petite dish is finely worked with thin walls and delicate brus...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Shiwan Glazed Ceramic Jar / Planter, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A wonderful glaze typical of Chinese "Shiwan" pottery adorns this early 20th Century Chinese storage jar. The jar likely occupied a private home to store grains or other household dr...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Chinese Cloisonne Incense Tool Vase, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th Century, China
Located in Austin, TX
A small and elegant Chinese cloisonné vase for incense tools, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century, China.
Made for the scholar's studio, this small refined vase, was used to hold incense tools, including a small pair of tongs or chopsticks and spoon. The tools no longer present.
Of miniature baluster vase form, the vase beautify proportioned and decorated in the cloisonné enamel technique, with gilt wires forming the cloisons, or partitions. Within the cloisons, colorful enamels have been expertly laid.
The small incense tool vase...
Category
Early 1800s Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Antique Pair of Chinese Porcelain Vases
Located in Brea, CA
A pair of antique Chinese porcelain vases with very beautiful hand paint. Excellent condition, measures: 12” x 8 '', the mouth of the vase is 5.5'', the bottom of the vase is 6.5, se...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Porcelain Large deep Plate Blue & White, Qing late Kangxi circa 1720
Located in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
This is a beautiful hand painted blue and white Chinese porcelain large diameter deep plate or charger, dating to the first half of the 18th century, circa 1720, Qing dynasty, either...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Turquoise Blue Peking Glass Vase, Republic Period, Early 20th Century
Located in Austin, TX
A small and charming turquoise blue carved Peking glass vase, Republic Period, early 20th century, China.
The Peking glass vase of elegant bottle shape featuring two shades of overlay blue. The outer layer of glass slightly darker than the inner layer. The outer layer of glass carved with a design of flowering branches, including plum blossoms and possibly peony.
The underside with an etched China mark.
Category
1920s Chinese Vintage Qing Furniture
Materials
Glass
Chinese 19C Bleu de Hue Bitong Butterflies Flowers Cobalt Blue Vietnamese
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
Chinese porcelain Bitong (??) or Brushpots is a container for holding the brushes used by scribes for Chinese calligraphy. These are typically carved from bamboo, jade or porcelain with ornate motifs symbolising concepts such as longevity. Antique examples are now valued highly.?
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The piece we are sharing here just arrived and is of cylindrical form, painted an ongoing scene of butterflies and flowers. The piece is dated to the 19th century in our opinion and either related to or part of the Blue de Hue...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
#8 Antique Chinese Porcelain 18th C Kangxi/Yongzheng Period Blue White
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Description
A very nicely decorated set of #8 plates. Dating to circa 1710-1730
A scene of three fishes, absolute top quality painting
Condition
No Hairlines Or Restoration...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Antique 18C Serving Platter Qing Chinese Porcelain China Landscape Scene
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A rare, big size, and quality painting serving platter or charger.
Very nicely decorated piece with good details. Very good condition.
Dating to around 1760. Very high quality
C...
Category
18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Fine Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Spoon, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A delicate example of the time-honored practice of blue-and-white ceramics, this 19th century porcelain soup spoon was likely used as an everyday ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Shiwan Green & Blue Glazed Ceramic Jar / Planter, c. 1900
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A wonderful blue-green glaze typical of Chinese "Shiwan" pottery adorns this early 20th Century Chinese storage jar. Shiwan ware is a style of Chinese pottery from the Shiwanzhen dis...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Kangxi Period Cobalt Blue Flower Compartment Plate Pomegranate
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A very nicely made dish with a beautiful decoration in dark cobalt blue colors.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate - Has many seeds - Stands for many children.
Condition
Overall condi...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Lovely Antique Blue white Dish Lotus Ducks Qing Chinese Porcelain Ch
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Dish on foot ring with a flat, underglaze blue. With lovely scene of ducks in a water scene. Marked at base. Lotus flowers.
This unusual dish is an interesting piece.
Condition...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Chinese Export Blue & White Porcelain Hat Stand, Late Qing Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The cylindrical body with lobe shaped open panels, decorated overall with cobalt blue vinery interspersed with flowerheads, lotus blossoms, fishes and shells, the rim encircled with wave motifs and bearing remnants of an old export paper label. The base decorated with a running band of lotus-petal motifs, the underside showing remnants of a wax export office seal and Kangxi style blue character marks for Kangxi Nian Zhi.
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chinese Qing Dynasty Period Blue Glazed Garden Seat with Floral Motifs on Base
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period garden seat from the 19th century, with blue glaze, pierced top and floral motifs. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty period, this garden seat fea...
Category
19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Large Serving Plate Jiaqing Qing Chinese Porcelain Blue and White
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
An excellent, shallow and large serving dish, exceptionally finely painted in underglaze blue with central reserve of an island village with pagodes, palm trees and fishermen. Furthe...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'4" x 11'8" - 285 x 355 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'4" x 11'8" - 285 x 355 )
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Wool
19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 )
Located in New York, NY
19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 )
Category
1880s Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Wool
Pair Chinese Double Luck Lotus Slippers, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
These pointed silk slippers are beautifully embroidered with colorful bats and golden coins, symbols of happiness and good luck, and were shaped to resemble a lotus bud to enhance one's bound feet. A practice that began in the Tang dynasty and reached the height of its popularity during the Qing dynasty, foot binding was a painful process intended to make a woman's feet as small as possible by restricting bone growth from an early age. The smaller the feet the more attractive and erotic they were, giving elite women a mark of elegance and a distinctive, albeit tortured, gait of small, light steps. These beautifully preserved lotus slippers...
Category
Mid-19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Silk
Antique Blue Chinese Art Deco Rug, Maximalist Style Meets Qing Dynasty
Located in Dallas, TX
77196 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06.
Maximalist style meets Qing Dynasty in this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug. The intricate botanical details and blu...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Wool
Chinese Robed Puppet, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand puppets, like this one from China’s Zhejiang region, have been a popular form of entertainment for centuries. In the late 19th early-20th century this tiny robed gentleman proba...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Furniture
Materials
Silk, Wood
Pair of 19th Century Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Cap Jars, circa 1825
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of large early 19th century Chinese blue and white porcelain cap jars. The jars retaining the original lids with guardian lions. Landscape motif decorations of good detail compl...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Qing Furniture
Materials
Brass
Qing furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Qing 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, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Qing 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 Wang Hing & Co., Satsuma, Copeland Spode, and Cornelis Pronk. 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 $38 and tops out at $188,800 while the average work can sell for $2,474.
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