Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
1850s Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
1920s Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Silk, Paint
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
1920s Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Bronze
1920s Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Bronze
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
Late 19th Century British Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Pine
Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Walnut
Late 19th Century British Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Walnut
Early 20th Century Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Brass, Gold Leaf
1880s French Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Fabric, Wood, Walnut
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Textile, Wood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century French Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Canvas, Giltwood
Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Fabric, Giltwood
1840s English Victorian Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Walnut
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Tapestry, Giltwood
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Mahogany, Maple, Walnut
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2010s American Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary American Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Metal, Brass, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary British Organic Modern Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Plaster
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Alabaster, Steel
2010s Brazilian Modern Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Cane, Wood, Hardwood, Textile
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
1940s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Stone
2010s Hong Kong Chinoiserie Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf, Brass
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper, Wood
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Brass
1990s American Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Canvas, Paint
20th Century Japanese Showa Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Brass
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Silk, Paper
2010s Egyptian Modern Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Giltwood
Recent Sales
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Silk
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Ink, Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paint
19th Century English Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Bamboo
1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Bone, Wood
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Silk
Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
and Bamboo
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Early 20th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Lacquer
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Silk
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper, Wood, Charcoal
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper, Wood, Charcoal
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Ink
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Brocade, Wood, Silk
Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Early 20th Century Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
1750s Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Silver Leaf
1890s Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
1670s Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Late 19th Century American Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Paint, Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century English Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Gold, Metallic Thread, Silver
1920s Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Other
Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Lacquer
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood
Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Metal, Iron
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Natural Fiber, Wood, Feathers
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Early 18th Century English Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Leather
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
19th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Bronze
Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers
Paper
Antique Japanese Screens Room Dividers For Sale on 1stDibs
Finding the Right screens-room-dividers for You
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.
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