Chinoiserie Leather Screen
Antique 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century English Regency Paintings and Screens
Leather
Antique 1760s Dutch Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique Late 18th Century Dutch Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique Mid-19th Century English Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
Vintage 1940s Chinese Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Soapstone
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
2010s Austrian Jugendstil Chandeliers and Pendants
Silk
Antique 1890s German Dinner Plates
Porcelain
20th Century Russian Neoclassical Vases
Malachite, Ormolu
Antique 19th Century English Chinoiserie Wall Lights and Sconces
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 1810s English Dinner Plates
Porcelain
20th Century Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Paper, Wood
Early 20th Century English Chinoiserie Crystal Serveware
Crystal
Antique 19th Century European Neoclassical Vases
Malachite, Ormolu
Antique Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Planters, Cachepots and Ja...
Porcelain
Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Metal, Brass
Antique Late 18th Century German Chinoiserie Ceramics
Porcelain
2010s Italian Other Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 19th Century French Chinoiserie Planters, Cachepots and Jardinières
Ormolu
Antique 1870s French Japonisme Vases
Bronze
Antique 19th Century English Chinoiserie Secretaires
Wood
Recent Sales
Antique Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings and Screens
Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Dutch Screens and Room Dividers
21st Century and Contemporary American Chinoiserie Cabinets
Giltwood
Antique Early 19th Century Paintings and Screens
Leather
Antique 19th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Antique Early 1900s French Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Wood
Antique Late 19th Century English Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Leather
Antique Early 19th Century English Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 19th Century French Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 17th Century European Baroque Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 18th Century Dutch Baroque Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 18th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 19th Century European Paintings and Screens
Leather
Antique Early 19th Century English Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Leather
Early 20th Century Italian Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Wood
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Louis XVI Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Wood
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Canvas
Antique 18th Century English Chinoiserie Paintings
Brass
Antique 19th Century Dutch Screens and Room Dividers
Antique Mid-19th Century European Screens and Room Dividers
Early 20th Century English Decorative Art
Leather
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 19th Century English Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 1740s English Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Paint, Leather
Vintage 1930s Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Screens and Room Dividers
Wood
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century English Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Brass
Antique 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 19th Century Dutch Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers
Wood, Leather
Antique Early 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Screens and Room Dividers
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Art
Chinoiserie Leather Screen 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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