Japonisme Furniture
JAPONISME STYLE
In the late 19th and early 20th century, France developed an enduring passion for Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship. Not only did this interpretation of Japanese culture — which became known as Japonisme — infuse fresh energy into French art and design, but it also radically transformed how Europeans, and subsequently the world, would come to understand visual culture.
Until 1853, Japan had been closely guarded against foreign visitors for over two centuries. However, American Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Japan that year and initiated the first of its treaties with the United States and Europe, thereby opening its borders and giving the West its first-ever look at Japanese design.
For the next few decades, taken with Japonisme, sophisticated collectors in Paris, New York and elsewhere gorged themselves on lacquered screens, celadon ceramics and netsuke ornaments, along with artworks depicting various aspects of Japanese life. The East Asian country’s influence on Europe, particularly France, contributed to one of the most creatively prosperous periods in history, leaving an imprint on the Impressionist, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, and inspiring artists like Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh as well as luxury houses such as Louis Vuitton and Hermès. Japonisme emerged at the time when the ornate Renaissance Revival style was the most prominent mode of decorating in Europe, and Japanese aesthetics seemed strikingly modern and elegant in comparison.
In addition to everyday practical objects from Japan, such as vases, tableware and decorative boxes, Japanese art, especially Japanese woodblock prints by masters of the ukiyo-e school, caught the eye of many artists — particularly those in the Art Nouveau poster community in 1880s Paris. The luscious organic colors associated with traditional Japanese design, motifs like cherry blossoms and carp and the vivid patterns found in woodblock prints, silks and more were adopted and appropriated by painters as well as ceramicists and those working in other fields of the decorative arts. Today, demand for Japanese lacquerware — furniture, trays, writing boxes, screens, incense burners — from the Edo period (1615–1868) and the late 19th century continues to be very strong among collectors.
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Style: Japonisme
Pair of Aesthetic Movement Vases Attributed to Susse Frères, France, Circa 1880
By Susse Freres
Located in PARIS, FR
A very fine pair of Japanese style vases attributed to Susse Frères and made in two patina bronze. Each vase in form of a patinated bronze ovoid body...
Category
1880s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Gabriel Viardot , Solid Palisander Chair with Bronzes Design, 19th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Gabriel Viardot (attributed to), solid palisander chair with bronzes design, 19th century
Ancient restorations.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Palisander
19th Century Japanese Armchair
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very dramatic late 19th century Japanese carved softwood armchair. Having mythical dragons entwined to the backrest and arms, raised on carved cab...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Softwood
Rare Japanese Export Marquetry Cabinet with Drawers on Stand
Located in Atlanta, GA
A piece of functional art made in Shizuoka for export to the western market, this Japanese chest with drawers on stand, circa 1900s features intricate marquetry work using a traditio...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japanese Table Cabinet with Cloisonne Panels in the style of Namikawa Sosuke
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese wood and cloisonne cabinet circa Meiji period, late 19th-early 20th century. The small table top cabinet features
a single drawer on top, four small doors with cloisonne panels on the second tier, a pair of larger cloisonne doors on the main level flanked by two skinny panels, and finally two drawers on the low level. It has a scroll carved base and sides as well four pagoda-shape cornices. The cloisonne panels were obviously the work of two different artist studios and were assembled on purpose to demonstrate a mixture of styles. The small top and the two skinny panels on the main level are of an earlier scrolling design that emphasize the wire work; The rest of the eight larger panels were done in a much later and painterly style attributed to Namikawa Sosuke...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Enamel, Metal
Large English Majolica Japonese Style Pitcher, circa 1880
Located in Austin, TX
Elegant large Victorian Majolica pitcher inspired by the Japon decorated with flowers, a large fan, a flag on pastel tones,
end of the 19th century / England.
Category
1880s British Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Etoffes Japonaises 'Tissues Et Brochees' Complete Folio of Fabric Designs
Located in Sharon, CT
A portfolio consisting of eighty (80) 16"x12" loose chromolithographs of the most beautiful Japanese fabric designs. Published by the Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1905.
Category
Early 20th Century French Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Paper
Pair of French Japonisme Ormolu Vases E. Lièvre, Executed by F. Barbedienne
Located in New York, NY
An important and monumental pair of very fine 19th century French Japonisme/Orientalist ormolu vases designed by Edouard Lièvre and Executed by Ferdinand Barbedienne. Each body with an oval shape, finely sculpted in a floral design, fringed by orientalist style handles with cartouches, the neck surmounted by a circular pierced scrolling dragon frieze. Each vase resting on a group of four orientalist style jeweled elephant...
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1870s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Late 19th Century Bronze Footed Planter
Located in Bellport, NY
A large antique bronze two handled decorated planter.
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Rare Aesthetic Movement Wall-Light Attributed to G. Viardot, France, Circa 1880
Located in PARIS, FR
A large Japanese style four lights sconce attributed to G. Viardot, in shape of a dragon made in carved tinted wood, holding in its mouth a Japanese blossoming cherry tree branch, fr...
Category
1880s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood
Asian Flambe Studio Pottery Vase
By Kyoto Pottery
Located in Atlanta, GA
A garlic bottle vase in an archaic Chinese form, but likely Japanese in origin. Several circumventing grooves however, suggest a more modern age. It was done in a brilliant purple glaze over a robin egg blue background glaze. The bubbling and bursting effects during the firing renders the surface an artistic spotting effect. The color pallet recalls the Classic Jun Yao...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
French Japonisme Hand-Painted Oil-on-canvas of a Geisha with a Fan
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful 19th century French japonisme oil-on-canvas painting of a Geisha holding a fan. This beautiful Geisha is modeled after the Japonisme movement brought up by French artists integrating Japanese artistic styles into their art work. During the mid-1870s, the demand for Japanese decorative arts...
Category
1880s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Lacquered and Gilt Bronze Antique Japonisme Vases
Located in London, GB
With an Arabesque rim and decorated with lizards, dragonflies and vines.
These unusual vases reflect the European fascination Japan at the turn of the century and delightfully inco...
Category
Early 20th Century French Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Lacquered and Gilt Wood Buddhism Statue from Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exceptional and wood statue of Buddhism Guardian Seitaka Doji from Japan circa Edo period (1603-1868), likely the earlier part of 17th century. One of two chief attendants of Fudo...
Category
17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Metal
Baluster Mug, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Pint mug of baluster form with flared base and grooved strap-handle with heart-shaped termination. The face of the mug painted after the Kakiemon with the two Quail pattern. The reve...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Coffee Cup, Kakiemon Decoration, Plymouth, circa 1769
By Plymouth Porcelain Factory 1
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Coffee cup in hard-paste porcelain, decorated with Kakiemon painting. The fruits of the Plymouth factory are perhaps the first examples of hard-paste porc...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Dessert Service for 12 with Polychrome Enamel Exotic Birds
Located in Great Barrington, MA
This "Japonesque" dessert service incorporates many decorative elements of both period and style. The shaped rims of the white plates are highlighted with gold trim and gadroon edges...
Category
1850s English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Large Pair of 19th Century Oriental Armchairs
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive large pair of Japanese carved softwood armchairs, each depicting carved exotic flowers and foliage.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Softwood
Elegant and Striking Japanned Tray or Cocktail Table French, Mid-20th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Elegant and striking Japanned tray or cocktail table, French, mid-20th century, of Louis XV style in brilliant vermilion with gold. The top is hand paint decorated in Japanese manner...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Wood
Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Attributed to Iwasa Matabei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique ink and color on paper hanging scroll (kakejiku) with brocade border. It appears to be a fragment of a larger hand scroll depicting a procession of a lord with his entoura...
Category
Early 17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk, Paper
Pair of Japonisme Porcelain and Ormolu Mounted Aesthethic Movement Vase's
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Pair of Japonism porcelain and ormolu-mounted Aesthethic Movement vase's.
Category
19th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Japanese Sterling Silver Centerpiece Pedestal Bowl by Hattori Kintaro
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite Japanese presentation bowl in sterling silver by Hattori Kintaro (1860 - 1934), circa 1910-1920s, late Meiji era to early Taisho era. This rare and rather large piece wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Malachite, Sterling Silver
Candleholder 2 Ryosuke Harashima Contemporary Zen Japanese craft Mingei
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Candleholder designed by Ryosuke Harashima.
This work is made of Japanese antique glass plate and brass.
Artist create new style candleholder by ...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brass
Japonism Bronze & Onyx Figural Phoenix Centerpiece/Jardinièr, Attributed Cornu
By Eugène Cornu
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful French polychrome patinated dore bronze and silvered bronze with Algerian onyx mounted centerpiece, attributed to Eugene Cornu. This beautiful centerpiece was made in the...
Category
1870s French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Pair of Japanese Patinated Bronze Candelabras, Meiji Period, ca. 1900
Located in New York, NY
This most unusual pair of original 18th century Japanese patinated bronze candelabras, uniquely designed as branches of mountain flowers entangled by a dragon, are mounted on the con...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Japanese late 19th Century Jardinières
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality pair of late 19th Century Japanese jardinieres. Each having exotic brightly colored birds and flowers.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Japanese Ceremonial Kimono Gold Brocade with Flying Cranes
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A vintage Mid-Century ivory color silk brocade collectable Japanese ceremonial kimono. One of a kind hand crafted.
Fabulous museum quality ceremonial piece in pure silk with intricat...
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Silk
Pair of Large Japanese Bronze Figures
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Asian Japanese style (19th Cent) large bronze figures of man and woman with guitars on shaped teak wood base.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Indigo Antique Boro Futon Cover or Wall Panel
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Rare perfect antique collection Japanese Indigo Boro Futon cover : also to use.
The rare antique boros are now valued as pieces of art, therefore they are...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas of Japanese Figures by Francis Neydhart
Located in Dallas, TX
A realistic oil on canvas of a person with umbrella bowing to a monk standing on steps by artist Francis Neydhart, (1860-1948). Fronted by a sun-dappled street in front of a large bu...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Huge Imari Vase with Email Painted with Birds and Kiku Flowers
Located in Weiningen, CH
Huge Imari vase with email painted with birds and kiku flowers.
Category
20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
Oriental Carved Sofa, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A beautiful 19th century Japanese sofa, having carved classical oriental foliate, floral decoration, with mythical dragons to the arms and raised on scrolling cabriole legs.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Softwood
Early 20th Century Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Vase with a Large Chrysanthemum
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very good and large-scale, early 20th century Royal Copenhagen porcelain vase.
With decoration that includes two very large Chrysanthemum flowers painted in muted blues and a ex...
Category
Early 20th Century Danish Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Style Ceramic Cup Takuya Hamajima Contemporary Zen
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Japanese style cup made of ceramic and wood.
Wood is zelkova and ceramic with zelkova ash glaze.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Wood
19th Century Oil on Canvas by Francis Heydhart, "A Courtyard Ceremony, Nikko"
Located in Dallas, TX
A realistically depicted oil on canvas titled "A Courtyard Ceremony, Nikko" by Austrian artist Francis Neydhart, (1860-1948). Signed lower right. Circa 1890's
Image measures: 30.25"...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Soup Tureen, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Oval tureen and cover, decorated after the Kakiemon in the two quail pattern; the crabstock handles and masks are interesting features. The tureen has had a rather unhappy life, appa...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Reconstructed Ceramics #6 Contemporary Zen Japonism Style
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
This series of ceramics are unique work by Norihiko Terayama. He broke ceramic at first, and make it into a lot of fragment. He rasp some of fragmen...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Painted Wood Five-Panel Folding Screen in the Japonisme Style
Located in London, GB
The front side of this French Japonisme folding screen has a fine oil depiction on wood of kabuki (typical Japanese opera) performers, one on each of the five panels; the reverse of ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Knife and Fork, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1749
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unsually early set of handles with original steel tines and blade. Pistol grip form moulded with acanthus scrolls, leaves and swags and painted with indianische Blumen in a Kakiem...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Carved Japanese Carved 3D Dumb Waiters or Card Butler Greeters
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Pair of carved Japanese carved 3D dumb waiters or card butler greeters.
A very unusual pair of 1920s dumb waiters, a Geisha and a Samurai, these 2 card butlers are hand carved, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Japonisme Furniture
1970s Table Lamp on Japanese Lacquer Foot in the Style of Jean Claude Mahey
Located in Baambrugge, NL
1970s table lamp on Japanese lacquer foot in the style of Jean Claude Mahey.
The lampshade has beautiful fringing. The fabric is in a good condition, although some slight discolorat...
Category
1970s French Vintage Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Lacquer
Plaster Sculpture of a Samurai Warrior
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Plaster Sculpture of a Samurai Warrior
The Samurai were a caste of warrior in Japan for over 7 Centuries, this plaster figure celebrates the Samurai i...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Japonisme Furniture
Tiffany Mixed Metal and Hand Hammered Sterling Silver Water Pitcher
Located in New York, NY
Sterling silver and mixed metal water pitcher. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, circa 1885. Globular body, straight neck and C-scroll handle. All-over honeycomb hand hammering. App...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Imari Jars with Covers Made into Lamps
Located in Carmel, CA
Pair of Arita porcelain jars with covers and insert cup with silkworm cocoon figure. Chrysanthemum, birds, orange blossoms are the predominating painted characters in shades of blue...
Category
18th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Baluster Vase, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1748
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early example of bow’s output, with a smooth, silky glaze. Painted after the Kakiemon with a phoenix, butterfly and various plants after the Japanese; with reserved panels featuri...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Oriental Style Delft Vase with Lid
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century oriental style delft vase with lid is a splendid example of Western European porcelain makers trying to keep up with the craze for ori...
Category
1880s Dutch Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Chocolate Pot, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1755
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Of full-bellied pear-shape with large sparrow-beak lip set slightly below the top rim of the body in front of a triangle of circular pouring holes and at the right angle to the strap...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Imari Pattern double-handled boat, Lady in a Pavillion pattern. Chelsea C1750
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Double-handled boat in soft-paste porcelain, decorated with the Lady in a Pavillion pattern, the design and palette both after the Japanese examples of the period. Figure decoration ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Glass Wearing Ceramic Vase 03 Contemporary Zen Japonism Style
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Antique broken ceramic Japanese sake bup repaired with glass. Broken chips are welded by glass.
This work is study for relationship between object and decoration.
Subject is Destru...
Category
2010s Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Pair of Fluted Dessert Plates, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Each of shallow circular form with scalloped rim and painted in the Kakiemon two Quail pattern with a pair of partridges standing between a flowering prunus and a kikyo bush amidst f...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Cup and Saucer, Kakiemon Decoration, Bow Porcelain Factory, circa 1753
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Low tea cup with clip handle with matching saucer, decorated after the Kakiemon with the two quail pattern. An unusual form with scarce decoration.
Prov...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Rare Antique Japanese Folding Screen by Kano Tanshin
By Kano Tanshin
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite Japanese folding screen painted and signed by Kano Tanshin (Morimasa) (1658-1719), circa early Edo Period. An important member of the Kano painter family, the son of Kano Tanyu...
Category
17th Century Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brass
JAPANESE Wood Block Print by Paul Jacoulet, La Pipe a eau, 1952
Located in London, by appointment only
Limited Edition 85 & 121 / 350
Woodblock Print
'Korea Series'
Signed in Pencil middle right
Handmade paper with JP watermark.
18 1/2 x 14in
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Paper
Japanese Rosewood Hand Carved Pedestal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Japanese rosewood hand carved pedestal.
Japan, circa 1920
Measures: Height 24", width 19".
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Rosewood
Perignem , Japanese-inspired ceramic vase, not signed, circa 1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Perignem, Japanese-inspired ceramic vase, not signed, circa 1950
Category
1950s Belgian Vintage Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Rare Antique Japanese Folding Screens with Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
An amazing pair of matching antique Japanese folding screen predating 1812-1813, most likely from Kano School. Six panels each depict C...
Category
1810s Japanese Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Brass
19th Century Bamboo and Rosewood Lacquered Étagère
Located in New York, NY
Bamboo and rosewood (19th Century) lacquered panel etagere with 3 doors with floral and figural decoration.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Japonisme Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Rosewood
Japonisme furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Japonisme 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, asian art and furniture, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Japonisme furniture made in a specific country, there are Asia, East Asia, and Japan pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Tiffany & Co., Gökhan Eryaman, İsmail Dağlı, and Makuzu Kozan. 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 $29 and tops out at $185,360 while the average work can sell for $2,527.
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