Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Teak
Early 20th Century Art Deco Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silver Leaf
1850s Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
1920s Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer
Early 1900s Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silk, Wood, Paper
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Walnut
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Japanese Room Dividers
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Walnut
1890s French Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silk, Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
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Brass
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Cedar
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Cedar, Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Cedar, Pine
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Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silk
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Ink, Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
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19th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
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Paint
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Silk
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Gold Leaf
19th Century Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
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Bamboo
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood
and Bamboo
Early 20th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
Early 20th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Lacquer
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Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silk
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Ink
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper, Wood, Charcoal
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper, Wood, Charcoal
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood
19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
1750s Japanese Edo Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Paper
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
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Wood
1890s Japanese Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
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Silver Leaf
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18th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
1670s Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
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Paper
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Gold Leaf
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Walnut
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Late 19th Century American Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood, Paint, Paper
1920s Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Other
Early 18th Century English Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Leather
19th Century English Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Gold, Metallic Thread, Silver
Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Lacquer
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Bronze
1890s French Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Silk, Wood
19th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Wood
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Velvet, Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Oak
1940s French Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Brass
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Mahogany
Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Gold, Gold Leaf
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Paper
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Brass
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Silk, Paper
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Wood, Lacquer, Paint
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Stone
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Wood
1940s French Art Deco Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Oak
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Elm
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Brass, Gold Leaf
1950s Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Fabric, Wood, Paper
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Japanese Room Dividers
Soapstone, Brass
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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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