Chinese Chippendale

American  

noun

1. (especially in furniture) an English rococo style using Chinese or quasi-Chinese motifs.

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Chinese Chippendale British  

noun

1. 1. a branch of Chippendale style in which Chinese styles and motifs are used

   2. ( as modifier )

      a Chinese Chippendale cabinet

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Etymology

Origin of Chinese Chippendale

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

But he added Chinese Chippendale railings and some French touches.”

From Architectural Digest • Dec. 21, 2009

In décors, she has been equally exacting; she spent twenty years searching for some eighteenth-century Chinese Chippendale wall paper of which she originally possessed a fragment.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 1929

In London, Sotheby's sold a set of seven Chinese Chippendale mahogany dining chairs for $4,480, up 50% since last February.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tea-table was Chinese Chippendale and set with old Spode on a lacquered tray over a mosaic-embroidered linen tea-cloth.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily

Chinese Chippendale bureau, and an amazing row of slippers, with ribbon-wound shoe-trees, and primrose stockings lying across them.

From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair