{"id":272305,"date":"2026-03-26T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amaruantiques.com\/?post_type=product&p=272305"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T17:16:20","slug":"antique-chinese-sideboard-in-solid-wood-china-circa-1930-am29012","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/amaruantiques.stg.uzero.cat\/en\/antique-furniture\/antique-chinese-sideboard-in-solid-wood-china-circa-1930-am29012\/","title":{"rendered":"Antique Chinese sideboard in solid wood \u2013 China, circa 1930"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antique Chinese sideboard in solid wood<\/strong>, nearly two metres in length, originally from China and dated toward 1930. An exceptional piece for its scale, sitting between a provincial honour sideboard<\/em> and an\u00a0family altar table<\/em>, representative of Chinese provincial furniture of grand scale<\/em> from the first third of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

In traditional Chinese homes at the turn of the twentieth century, large sideboards presided over main rooms, fulfilling dual functions: storing precious objects, clothing and textiles in interior compartments, and serving as a display platform on the continuous top board, where vessels, lamps, photographs and pieces of honour were exhibited to give visual identity to the home. The almost architectural proportion of this piece \u2014 nearly two metres linear \u2014 places it in a structuring furniture, which organises an entire wall without need of additional pieces.<\/p>\n

It is built in solid local wood \u2014 most likely pine or elm wood \u2014 with a front organised in a sequence of doors, drawers or frame-and-panel sections. Traditional Chinese carpentry without nails, based on mortise-and-tenon joints, ensures structural stability despite the scale. The pulls, where present, are original forged-iron rings on plates. The legs, robust, connect to the body in an integrated manner. The top board is generous and perfect for display.<\/p>\n

The patina preserves original character: the wood shows a very uniform and warm honey-brown tone, with entirely legible grain and soft matte sheen polished slowly over nearly a century. The hardware retains its most noble oxidation \u2014 silvered in some places, dark in others \u2014 enriching the functional reading. The structure is solid and all mechanisms work correctly.<\/p>\n

For its \u00a0scale and continuous surface, it fits in large interiors \u2014 galleries, grand living rooms, industrial lofts, Mediterranean houses with extensive walls \u2014 where it works as a principal living-room sideboard, a low piece beneath a series of framed works, a display platform for collections or a protagonist piece that orders a wall completely on its own. Its horizontal presence orders expansive spaces.<\/p>\n

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