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What do you call a room divider?
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Room dividers can also be referred to as screens or panels.

Lotus GallerySeptember 23, 2020
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Chinese Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
This impressive sign was once hung above the entrance to a Chinese ancestral hall. It is made from planks of Elmwood covered in layers of thick black tree lacquer for protection from...
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20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
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Chinese painting - 19th century
Located in Porto, PT
Chinese screen - 19th century. 19th-century Chinese piece; in black lacquered wood with a sandalwood interior.
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export, Jappanned Screen, Crackle Lacquer, Gilt, Brass, China, 1960s
Located in Stamford, CT
Chinese Export, Jappanned Screen or Room Divider, Black Lacquer, Wood, Gilt, Brass, China, 1960s
This 20th-century five-panel crackle lacquer screen features a finely decorated phoe...
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20th Century Chinese Export Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lacquer
Chinese Coromandel 4-Fold Screens
Located in Queens, NY
Asian Chinese style (20th Century) black coromandel 4 fold (16\" each panel) screens with scene of people on one side and flowers & birds on reverse.
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Screens and Room Dividers
$4,500 / item
Chinese lacquer screen with bird and bamboo decorations. Chinese work.
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This is a Chinese work. Circa 1950
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Vintage 1950s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
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Lacquer
Chinese three-panel folding screen
Located in Porto, PT
Chinese three-panel screen. Chinese; Minguo period (1912-1949); made of carved and openwork exotic wood.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Ming Screens and Room Dividers
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Wood
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Located in Austin, TX
A magnificent pair of Chinese Export Chaozhou (Teochew) carved gilt wood frames with reverse glass painted panels, Qing Dynasty, mid 19th century, Guangdong, China.
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Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens
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Fabric, Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Chinese Pair Qilin Guardian Sculptures, Carved Wood and Gilt Lacquer, Circa 1900
Located in Austin, TX
A magnificent pair of Chinese Choazhou (Teochew) carved wood and gilt lacquered mythical guardian beasts known as qilin, late Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), circa 1900, southern China.
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Antique Early 1900s Chinese Qing Sculptures and Carvings
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Gesso, Glass, Wood, Softwood, Lacquer, Paint
Pair Chinese Ming Dynasty Gold and Spinel Hair Ornaments, 17th c
Located in Austin, TX
A rare and unusual pair of Chinese Ming Dynasty hair ornaments crafted in high karat gold with cabochon spinels, and featuring images of cranes amongst clouds, early to mid 17th cent...
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Antique 17th Century Chinese Ming Antiquities
Materials
Multi-gemstone, Gold
Japanese Lacquer Tray by Zohiko, Meiji/Taisho Period, Early 20th Century, Japan
By Zōhiko Studio
Located in Austin, TX
A lovely Japanese lacquer decorated tray with images of hemp leaves, maple leaves, and cherry blossoms by Zohiko, Meiji or Taisho Period, early 20th century, Japan.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Lacquer
Materials
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Japanese Kodaiji Maki-e Lacquer Kyarabako Incense Box, Momoyama Period
Located in Austin, TX
A striking and rare Japanese Kodaiji style lacquer kyara-bako, box for precious agarwood incense, Momoyama period (1573-1615), late 16th to early 17th century, Japan.
The rectangula...
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Antique 16th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Copper
19th Century Japanese Lacquer Document Box, Ryoshibako, Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A resplendent Japanese gold maki-e lacquer ryoshibako, document box, Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan.
The large document box, known in Japan as a ryoshibako, is decorated al...
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Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer
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Large Antique Tibetan Hand Hammered Copper Ritual Vessel or Butter Lamp
Located in Austin, TX
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