Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
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Style: Chinese Export
Chinese Export Watercolor Exotic Bird Paintings on Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade watercolor paintings of exotic birds on branches are in watercolor and gouache on Chinese paper.
One picture depicts a pigeon perched on a tree branch with a landscape background. Chinese calligraphy can be seen in the top right corner. The second picture depicts two courting birds in shades of brown, both perched on a branch, also in a landscape background.
Both paintings framed with a green silk mat and contemporary gilt and dark wood frame.
Reference: Chinese Export...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Chinese Ancestor Empress Portrait Watercolor Scroll Painting 57"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique watercolor on paper Chinese ancestor portrait, depicting a woman on a throne chair wearing intricate robes with cranes and dragons, and jeweled crown of an Empress. Distresse...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring beauties in a pagoda pavilion landscape. Beautifully crafted from intricately carved soapstone in vivid colors and fasci...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Painting on Scroll Paper, China 19th Century, Birds and Nature Decor
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Chinese painting on paper, which is unrolled once hung on the wall. It is a painting that depicts birds in nature, in the style of the 18th c...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
BATTLE SCENE AND HUNTING SCENE Late 18th Century Chinese
Located in Madrid, ES
BATTLE SCENE AND HUNTING SCENE Late 18th Century Chinese
Chinese paintings, from the 18th century, on paper. Framed.
Small defects.
Dim.: 177 x 162 cm
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Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Paper
Antique pair of Chinese reverse painted pictures, the Emperor and Empress C 1920
Located in Central England, GB
A very decorative rich and colourful pair of pictures are hand painted in reverse on panes of glass. This is a very difficult and highly skilled process where the finest detailing ha...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
19th C. Chinese Hand Painted Silk 6-Panel Wallpaper Floor Screen Mounted As A Pr
Located in Atlanta, GA
Chinese, 19th or possibly late 18th century.
An oversized Chinese 6 panel wallpaper screen mounted as a PAIR of 3 panel screens. Each nearly 8 foot tall panel has stunning hand laid...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paint
Chinese Export Six Panel Coromandel Screen Exotic Bird Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stylized 20th century Chinese export coromandel screen depicting an exotic bird landscape. The front side of the six panel screen is centered by a large mythical bird with colorful p...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
XIANG TIAN - 'Relaxing' - Vintage Watercolor Painting - Signed - China - 20th C.
Located in Chatham, ON
XIANG TIAN - 'Relaxing' - Vintage watercolor painting on paper - nice quality and composition - signed with a single red chop mark and Chinese characters (upper left) - signed and ti...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Vintage Watercolor Painting on Paper - Signed - Unframed - China - 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage watercolor painting on paper - good quality and composition - signed with a multi character stamp in red - mounted with adhesive tape to a two color/double bevel edged matte ...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Late 19th Century Chrysanthemum Chinese Painting on Silk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century Chinese painting on silk. For the export market. Dark blue vase on stand filled with flowering branches & white & pink chrysanthemums. Framed with inner gilt liner....
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Silk
Late 19th Century Chinese Painting on Silk
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Late 19th century Chinese painting on silk. For the export market. A vase with a crane in the reserve is filled with flowering b...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Vintage Asian Gouache Painting on Paper - Unsigned - China - Late 20th Century
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage gouache painting on paper - good quality and composition - mounted with adhesive tape to a two color/double beveled matte board - unsigned - China - late 20th century.
Excel...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Set of Four 19th Century Chinese Export Harbor / Seascape Paintings
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of Four 19th-Century Chinese Export Harbor and Seascape Paintings
Chinese School, Hand Painted on Silk, Measuring 14.5 inches wide by 11 inches high (sight), Laid on Board
Imme...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Glass, Giltwood
Chinese Export Eight Panel Coromandel Screen Lotus Blossoms
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Grand Chinese export post republic period eight panel coromandel screen featuring a waterscape decorated with blossoming lotus and birds....
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Five Panel Coromandel Screen Pagoda Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare Chinese export five panel lacquered coromandel double sided screen featuring figures amid a pagoda landscape. The panels have thick lacquer incised with colorful pigments that h...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Manchurian Cranes in Pine
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Captivating 20th century Japanese style byobu four-panel folding screen. The screen is titled ancient pine/longevity cranes signed on left side with an artist seal Ying Jun. The scre...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Hollywood Regency Lacquered Coromandel Screen with Banana Leaves
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export hollywood regency period four panel coromandel screen featuring a lush green landscape with exotic birds, vines, and banana leaves. Each panel measures 16 inc...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
A Chinese export reverse-glass painting after an English print in original frame
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, late 18th century
In original hardwood frame with ruyi-shaped metal mount for suspension.
H. 38.7 x W. 44.3 cm (incl. frame)
H. 31.8 x W. 37.5 cm (image)
Chinese reverse glass paintings for export are known since mid 18th century. By the 1780's the copying of European, mainly English, engravings came into vogue in Chinese paintings on glass...
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Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
19th Century Chinese Reverse Glass Painting
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
A good quality C19th Chinese reverse painting on glass of large size, brightly coloured with depicting dignitaries, ladies and attendants in a courtyar...
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1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
19th Century Chinese Reverse Glass Painting
Located in Shipston-On-Stour, GB
19th century unusual Chinese reverse painting on glass, depicting a busy Hong Kong harbour scene with trade boat flying different countries flags, loca...
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1880s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint
Early Monumental Framed Chinese Ancestral Portraits -Guache on Paper , 76”h - S/
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is a set of early Chinese ancestral portraits, male and female. The medium is guache on paper with soothing neutrals. The frames are taupe with iridescent tones. There is foxing...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper
19th Century Chinese Export Butterfly & Insect Pith Watercolor
Located in Atlanta, GA
Canton China, circa 1830.
A great and unusual pith watercolor painting of butterflies and insects around a blossoming tree branch. Unmarked.
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Giltwood, Paper
Antique Chinese Export Qing Dynasty Reverse Painting on Glass of Children 1860
Located in Portland, OR
A very fine antique Qing dynasty Chinese export reverse painting on glass, circa 1860.
The painting depicts two children from the Imperial court, wearing very finely embroidered robe...
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1860s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Set of Chinese Figurative Mid Century Watercolor Landscapes
Located in Lomita, CA
These are two paintings depicting figures in a natural landscape setting among trees and other garden settings. The palette is pastel mixed with neutral tones. Based on the hairstyle...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Chinese Suzhou Embroidery Table Screen
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Suzhou Embroidery Table Screen, revolving panel depicting cat and praying mantis scene.
Dealer: S138XX
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Thread, Wood, Glass
Asian Two Panel Table Screen Flowering Prunus with Songbird
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful Asian two panel byobu screen featuring a blossoming prunus tree with a songbird perched on its branch. Vibrant ink and color pigments applied to a golden silk ground. The pa...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Antique Tibetan Hand Painted Buddhist Thangka
Located in Pomona, CA
Very beautiful and colorful Antique Tibetan Buddhist Thangka. It is all hand painted with Tibetan natural mineral painting material which can last for...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric
Silk 1940s Chinese Export Needlepoint with Nightingale on Branch with Blooms
Located in Lomita, CA
This is a silk Asian needlepoint (Gilt Bamboo-style frame) bird on a branch with flow that measures 38 x 25 x 2.5 inches.It is stunning in pastel colo...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Bamboo
Chinese Export Gilt Coromandel Screen Manchurian Cranes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic Chinese export four-panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring an idyllic pond landscape with eight red crowned cranes or Manchurian cranes...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf, Brass
Verre Eglomise Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Antique Verre Eglomise Chinese Export reverse glass painting.
Beautiful Chinese reverse glass painting of two women in a Chinese garden with a scroll. This painting is particularly vibrant and exquisite in color and detail. The wood frame painting...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Glass, Wood
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Lacquered Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Distinctive Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring carved hardstone and soapstone decoration. The screen depicts a group of beauties in colorful flowing robes. The parcel-gilt landscape is decorated with two large carved stone trees...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Gilt Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring a pagoda pavilion landscape with a dramatic gold leaf background. The black lacquered panels are incised with vibr...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Chinese Chinoiserie Black Lacquered and Gold Coromandel 6 Panel Screen
Located in West Hartford, CT
Spectacular Chinese black lacquered 6 panel folding screen incised with gold gilt and white paint featuring Chinese village scenery. Feet...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Export Coromandel Screen Soapstone Landscape with Cranes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export six-panel coromandel lacquered folding screen featuring a carved soapstone floral landscape with cranes. Each panel is 16 inches wide and embellished with a...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting of Warriors in Landscape, circa 1825
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A fine circa 1825 Chinese Export polychrome reverse glass painting of a warrior group with horse and 'Budai' in a river landscape housed in original 'Chinese Chippendale' parcel-gilt...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Gilt Chinese Hand Painted Folded Fan
Located in Lomita, CA
This hand painted gilt monumental folded Chinese Export fan is worth collecting. This is a vintage piece from the 1960s most likely. The fan is rea...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo, Paper
Chinese Export Reverse Glass Portrait Painting of an Opium Maiden, circa 1880
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A wonderful and extremely rare last quarter 19th century Chinese export for the Anglo-Indian market reverse glass portrait painting of an opium-smoking maiden or young lady painted i...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Glass, Giltwood, Paint
Chinese Reticulated & Hinged Standing Frame
Located in New York, NY
Chinese rosewood reticulated and hinged standing frame, the whole with floral decoration, the glass mounted frame fully turnable, with two volute support feet similarly carved.
Deal...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Rosewood
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Dream of the Red Chamber
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Faded Chinese export narrative tale coromandel screen with four lacquered panels. The scene is from the 18th century novel by Cao Xuegin. The screen depicts beauties in the grand vie...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Reverse Painting on Glass Empress Dowager Cixi 1st Half of 20th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A CHINESE REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS
OF Empress Dowager Cixi
1st Half of 20th Century.
Fine painting on glass of
Empress Cixi seating on a throne
in or...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Chinese Export Six Panel Gilt Lacquered Folding Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export six-panel lacquered folding screen featuring idyllic gilt landscape scenes. Each panel is decorated with a painted scene...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Brass
Lovely Pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portrait Hand Painted Glass Paintings
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portraits w...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Glass
Chinese Export Eight Panel Coromandel Screen Gilt Pavilion
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Imposing Chinese export eight panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring an idyllic pavilion over a dramatic gilt background. The panels are incised with intricate details and vibra...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
FINE & COLLECTABLE ANTiQUE CHINESE EXPORT SOAPSTONE FOLDING SCREEN ROOM DIVIDER
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this extremely well made and highly collectable Chinese Export circa 1920’s Soapstone room divider folding s...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
Sublime Pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portrait Hand Painted Glass Paintings
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this Sublime pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portraits ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Chinese Export Six Panel Hardstone Lacquer Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Chinese export intricately carved lacquered screen featuring scholars objects in boldly colored stones. The reverse side has a delicate gilt decoration over a black ground ....
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
Set of Twelve Chinese Gouache Paintings in Bamboo Frames
Located in Bradenton, FL
Set of twelve early 20th century Chinese Gouache paintings depicting everyday life of various craftsmen. Examples are a barber, food vendors, ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Chinese Export Lacquered Six Panel Coromandel Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully weathered patina Chinese export lacquered coromandel screen with six double sided panels. The screen features a mountain landscape on one si...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Eight-Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated grand scale Chinese export Eight-panel Coromandel screen featuring different hand painted Chinese scene on each side. One side depicting an hand painted and parcel gilded court scenes. The reverse features a Chinese landscape scene. The screen measures 96 inches...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Chinese Export Four Panel Gilt Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Heavenly Mid-Century Modern period Chinese export lacquered coromandel screen featuring four panels depicting celestial beauties in the sky with decorative ruyi clouds and moon. Soli...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Decorative Wall Plate of Spring
Located in Milano, IT
Round plate made of bronze and cloisonné enamel designed in China in the 20th century.
This plate is made of bronze and cloisonné enamel, a goldsmith technique originally applied to...
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Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
Zhao Chengxiang Floral Still Life Ink on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Zhao Chengxiang (Chinese, b. 1953) ink painting on paper scroll depicting a flower still life scene with cat, signed.
Note: Zhao Chengxiang is a native of the Shantou, Guangdong Prov...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Rare & Collectable Antique Chinese Export Soapstone Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely well made and highly collectable Chinese Export circa 1920’s Soapstone room divider folding screen depicting Geisha Girls
Please...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
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Soapstone
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Screen Pearlescent Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Captivating Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring an idyllic seascape with beauties. The background is comprised of pearlescent crystal sand that shines like glitter ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Pair of Vintage Asian 3 Panel Screens with Intricate Hand Painted Detail
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Super Chic pair of vintage Asian 3 Panel black lacquered screens with beautiful carved intricate detail and hand painted. Each side is displayin...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Four Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Celestial Chinese export coromandel four-panel screen depicting figures in colorful robes in a heavenly landscape among the white clouds. Eac...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
18th Century Chinese 4 Panel Coromandel Landscape and Figural Screen
Located in Sharon, CT
Offering an early 4 Part carved and lacquered paneled screen, scenes on both sides, each section divided into three parts plus a skirt. Fine carved landscapes on one side and figures...
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Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Lacquer
Chinese Export paintings and screens for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export paintings and screens for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage paintings and screens created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, wall decorations, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export paintings and screens made in a specific country, there are Asia, China, and East Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original paintings and screens, popular names associated with this style include and Sunqua. 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 paintings and screens differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $277 and tops out at $55,677 while the average work can sell for $3,975.
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