10 Best Antique Shops in Singapore (2026)

Singapore's antique trade runs from the arcade of small dealers inside Tanglin Shopping Centre to family-run Chinatown shopfronts and a Peranakan collector's shophouse in Katong, covering Chinese furniture and porcelain, Peranakan collectibles, colonial-era pieces and Southeast Asian antiquities. This guide rounds up shops that were verified as currently operating through their own websites, social pages or recent coverage, focusing on what each is actually known for rather than ranking them against each other. Stock at every shop turns over constantly and pieces are one-off, so treat this as a shortlist of places worth visiting in person, and confirm hours, appointment requirements and availability directly with each shop before you go.

Just Anthony is one of Singapore's longest-running dealers in Chinese antique furniture, occupying a roughly 15,000 sq ft bungalow-and-warehouse compound off Upper Paya Lebar Road. The shop says it has traded in antique pieces since the 1970s, and its range runs from carved cabinets, altar tables, chairs and console pieces to old door panels, stone statues and ceramic accessories. Alongside genuine antiques it stocks reproduction and custom-made furniture in classic Chinese styles, including Ming-inspired pieces, for buyers who want the look without hunting for an original. The team also offers restoration and custom-sizing work for collectors and homeowners. Its scale and range make it a natural first stop for anyone starting to explore Chinese antique furniture in Singapore.

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Shang Antique has operated from Tanglin Shopping Centre since 1984, and describes its stock as genuine Southeast and South Asian antiques dating from the 7th to the 19th century, sourced from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, India and the Gandhara region. Its roughly 6,000 sq ft showroom is known for stone and hardstone sculpture, including Buddhist and Hindu figures such as Buddha, Vishnu, Brahma and Lakshmi, alongside older pieces of furniture and decorative art. The shop also sells resin wicker outdoor furniture as a separate, more contemporary line. For anyone drawn to devotional or archaeological-style pieces rather than furniture and porcelain, it is one of the more specialised names in the Tanglin antiques cluster.

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Antiques of the Orient was formed in 1981 by Michael J. Sweet and Julie Yeo and has run from Tanglin Shopping Centre ever since, building an international reputation as a specialist in antiquarian maps and prints of Southeast Asia and Singapore. Alongside its map and print collection, spanning original 19th-century pieces to modern reproductions, it deals in Chinese porcelain that it says is mainly Qing dynasty, Oriental works of art, old photographs, postcards, and ephemera such as vintage share certificates and travel posters. Budgets here range from affordable reproduction prints to considerably higher sums for an original map or piece of porcelain, so it suits both casual buyers and serious collectors.

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The Past Perfect Collection specialises in antique colonial furniture from the British, Dutch and Portuguese era in India, alongside decorative pieces such as antique maps, silverware and vintage tiffins. Founded in 2007 by Dutch owners Pieter and Marie-Helene van Houten, the business passed to long-time customers Danielle and Steven Lesser in 2025 and has since relocated to Pasir Panjang, having previously been based in River Valley, Bukit Timah and the Tan Boon Liat Building. The shop says it hand-selects pieces for condition, rarity and origin rather than stocking in volume, and that it has previously supplied furniture for a Raffles Hotel refurbishment. It suits buyers specifically drawn to colonial-era, Indo-European pieces rather than Chinese or Peranakan antiques.

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Katong Antique House is less a shop than a private museum: a Peranakan-tiled shophouse filled with decades of collecting by the late Peter Wee, a fourth-generation Peranakan and former president of The Peranakan Association Singapore. It holds his personal collection of Baba-Nyonya furniture, porcelain, beaded slippers, kebaya and kueh moulds, now shared with visitors by curators Angeline Kong and Eric Ang, both close partners of Mr Wee. Entry is by appointment only, arranged ahead of time, and takes the form of a guided tour with a modest entry fee rather than a browse-and-buy visit. It suits readers who want to understand Peranakan material culture in depth, more than those hunting for a specific piece to purchase.

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East Inspirations is a Chinatown antiques and vintage specialist on South Bridge Road, carrying Qing dynasty porcelain, blackwood furniture, Yixing teapots, teaware and decorative curios, alongside a following for its Peranakan porcelain. The shop organises its inventory into antiques, curios, furniture and vintage sections, mixing museum-quality pieces with smaller, more affordable finds such as teacups, so it works whether you're building a serious collection or want a single decorative piece. Owners are known for sharing the history behind individual pieces with visitors, sometimes over a pot of tea. It's one of the more visited antique addresses in Chinatown and a good starting point before comparing prices elsewhere.

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Chan Ngee Trading Co is a three-generation, family-run antiques shop on South Bridge Road that the family says has traded in Chinatown since the 1950s, making it one of the older surviving shops in the district. Its ground floor carries porcelain, jade, wood carvings and everyday curios from postwar Singapore, while a small exhibition space upstairs shows Chinese paintings and calligraphy, some of which the shop has taken to selling through its own online auctions. It's a smaller, more personal stop than the Tanglin galleries, and visitors describe staff who are happy to talk through the story behind a piece rather than simply ring up a sale. Good for browsing Chinese antiques and curios at a range of price points.

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Tong Mern Sern is a Tanjong Pagar institution that founder Keng Ah Wong has run since 1972 from a conserved pre-war shophouse on Craig Road, under a storefront banner that reads "we buy junk and sell antiques." The shop is a dense, unsorted mix of old furniture, four-poster beds, porcelain bowls, jewellery, figurines and lighting, much of it sourced from house clearances and Singapore's secondhand trade over the decades. It rewards unhurried browsing rather than a quick, curated visit, and prices are generally settled through conversation rather than fixed tags. It's a favourite with long-time local and expatriate collectors precisely because the stock is unpredictable and changes with whatever has just come in.

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Hock Siong & Co is a large-format secondhand and vintage furniture warehouse in Kampong Ampat, built on stock cleared from hotels, retail fit-outs and industrial spaces that founder Toh Chin Siong's team refurbishes, upcycles or restores rather than discards. Spread across several connected units, its mix runs from vintage rosewood and mid-century pieces to lighting, decor and hospitality furniture, with the shop describing itself as "Singapore's favourite second-hand store" and stock that it says changes constantly as new lots arrive. It leans vintage and reclaimed rather than fine antique, so it suits buyers after characterful, well-made older furniture more than collectors chasing one specific antique category. It also offers island-wide delivery and a furniture disposal service.

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Wing Antiques & Collectibles is a small, packed shop tucked into a Havelock Road mall that focuses on everyday collectibles rather than furniture and statement pieces: vintage postcards, old currency notes, LP records, porcelain figurines, glass bottles and other pre-war and mid-century odds and ends. It's a browsing shop more than a showroom, rewarding customers who enjoy digging through boxes and cabinets for a specific find rather than those wanting a single curated, ready-to-display piece. Business records show it has operated under the same trade for over two decades, and it's best treated as a stop for smaller, pocketable collectibles alongside the furniture and porcelain sold at Singapore's bigger antique dealers.

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