Antique Corner Cupboards

Antique Corner Cupboards are one of those useful pieces of antique furniture that you can use to utilise those awkward corners in room, when you need additional storage. Antique corner cabinets are either wall hanging or floor standing and come in solid woods like Oak, Mahogany or more rare examples in Rosewood and Burr Walnut. Antique corner cupboards were first seen in the early Georgian period, in Oak with features like dental moulding, figured doors with cross-banding and raised fielded panels. The interiors always had shaped shelves, often with their original paint and stand on shaped bracket feet if floor standing. Towards the later 18th Century, new features were introduced like the bow front antique corner cabinet with unusual inlay detailing in a rich Mahogany, a truly impressive design. The scrolled swan neck pediment with decorative brass eagle centrepiece or finial and brass H hinges were fitted on the doors, along with Rocco key escutcheons. Glazed doors were fitted with splendid astragal glazing bars to display drinking vessels and fine china. In the Victorian and Edwardian periods, new decorative shapes were made like the unusual Serpentine glazed corner cabinet with Grecian moulded edge and unique pear drop carved frieze. The corners were often canted with blind fretwork carvings, they were made to impress! Have a look below at our fine selection of antique corner cabinets for sale or to see our full selection click Here.

Antique Corner Cupboards for Sale

Styles of Antique Corner Cupboards

below are some fine examples that we have previously sold, so you can see the types we regularly have on offer –

Dating from around 1770, this unusual wall hanging corner cupboard is bow fronted with the most spectacular chinoiserie style decoration with decorative hinges and key with working lock. 

Corner Cabinets Designed to sit on the Floor stand on shaped bracket feet and with raised fielded panels and moulded edges with quality brass H hinges like this Georgian example.

Wall Hanging Corner Cupboards were more common, usually with fitted interiors and small drawers. the best examples will have a swan neck pediment above a blind fretwork cornice. The earlier examples were far more plain and simple in design and usually made from Oak.

This Fine Quality Oak cabinet is Bow Fronted with Mahogany cross-banding and decorative brass key escutcheons. 

Later designs would have spectacular figured Burr Walnut like this Antique Edwardian Corner Cabinet with stunning feather banding and in the Queen Anne design with a moulded swan neck pediment.

Beautiful Inlays were used in the Edwardian period like this antique glazed corner cupboard circa, 1900. It is the wonderful work of a true craftsman and has been beautifully inlaid with fine swags and tails detailing. It really is quite unique along with satinwood cross-banded edge, boxwood and ebony string inlay, ideal to display those cherished items.

This Beautiful early 20th Century Edwardian Mahogany Antique Corner Cabinet / Corner Cupboard is floor standing and dates from c. 1900. It has a swan neck pediment that sits above four glazed doors with astragal glazing bars and brass clash mould. There is a key with working locks. This fine Edwardian antique cabinet has inlaid banding around the edges and it stands on cabriole legs.