Aubrey Beardsley Furniture

Step back in time with this captivating eight-panel Coromandel screen, a rare and exquisite example of early 19th-century Chinese craftsmanship. Embellished on both sides, the panel...

Nineteenth century Screen with grotesques Measures: (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century. The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. the first panel depicts the fable of The frogs ask for a king, the second panel instead represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the Hare and the tortoise, while the fourth The crow and the fox, while the last panel probably represents the episode of the Fox and the stork. The screen owes its name to its singular and ancient origin; after the discovery of these decorations in 1480 in Nero's Domus Aurea, a palace that had been buried for centuries, under the pretext of imitatio antiquitatis, they were re-proposed in contemporary palaces. The palace of Nero was visited by many explorers, who descended into it and had the impression of being inside a cave, which is why, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, these particular decorations rediscovered there were called grotesque. The great success that the grotesques had is testified by Raphael's decorations in the Vatican...

This is an early 20th century French hand painted chinoiserie folding screen. It has three panels and looks wonderful mounted on a wall as well. The piece does show some age wear.

Antique 19th century Italian Floral Painted 3 panel folding floor screen / room divider. The screen has been expertly painted by an Italian sch...

Monumental 19th Century lacquered screen with a Chinoiserie design throughout. This fantastic screen features ten folding panels which are decorated on both...

Five fold screen with original apple green pleated silk and braid. Mahogany frame. French c.1810 Measures: height 118cm Each panel 45 cm wide In origina...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Published by Hodder and Stoughton, New York Lond...

8-Panel Framed Porcelain Tile Screen, 19th Century Chinese Export

A stunning quality 19th century mahogany folding three panel dressing screen or room divider, featuring lovely mahogany panels below and astragal openings to the top part. Three mahogany wooden panels on triple swing hinges. The triple swing hinges allow the panels to swing both ways offering more adjustability. In very good condition. Great quality. A good piece of 19th century english antique furniture...

The "Poetical Works" of John Milton edited By Sir Egerton Brydges Bart and llustrated with engravings from drawings by John Martin and J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Details: Two volumes, full page...

A 19th century studded leather three-sectional folding screen, or room divider, its decorative leather panels backed with canvas, and stretched over a hinged wooden frame. This unusu...

English late Victorian painted and decoupage 4-panel screen with figurative scenes on both sides of screen.