Vintage Asian Carved Soapstone Figurative 6 Panel Screen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This monumental six-panel room divider is a breathtaking example of Mid-Century Chinoiserie artistry, offering both architectural scale and intricate decorative detail. Masterfully f...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Table Screen with Soapstone Panel, circa 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
Deaccessioned from the MacLean Collection of Asian Art.
Soapstone
Chinese Qing Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese late Qing dynasty four panel folding coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone. The lacquered panels are decorated with idyllic scenes of beauties in a pagoda p...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Lacquered Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Distinctive Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring carved hardstone and soapstone decoration. The screen depicts a group of beauties in colorful flowing robes. The par...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Six Panel Cloisonné Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Chinese export six-panel lacquer coromandel screen featuring a blue and white cloisonné style border decorated with scholars objects, animals, and vases. The middle of the s...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone decoration. The panels are crafted from lacquered wood expertly fitted into frames with mortise and te...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring beauties in a pagoda pavilion landscape. Beautifully crafted from intricately carved soapstone in vivid colors and fasci...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export four panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone beauties in a floral landscape with gilt clouds. Each panel has recessed windows with...
Soapstone, Brass
Pair of Stunning Vintage Soapstone & Mother of Pearl Geisha Girl Wall Panels
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are is delighted to offer for sale this stunning pair of vintage circa 1940s Chinese chinoiserie wall plaques depicting Geisha girls in soapstone and mother of pearl Please not...
Soapstone
$30,800Sale Price|20% Off
Large 20th C. Chinese 6 Panel Lacquered Hardstone and Jade Coromandel Screen
Located in New York, NY
A large 20th century Chinese six panel Lacquered Hardstone and Jade Coromandel screen. This screen features intricately carved hardstone, soapstone, jade, lapis, quartz, and other ha...
Stone, Jade, Lapis Lazuli, Soapstone
Chinese Export Six Panel Hardstone Lacquer Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Chinese export intricately carved lacquered screen featuring scholars objects in boldly colored stones. The reverse side has a delicate gilt decoration over a black ground ....
Soapstone
4 Midcentury Japanese Lacquered Carved Soapstone Wall Hanging Panels
Located in Dayton, OH
Set of four Mid-20th Century Japanese chinoiserie panels in black lacquered wood with gilded backgrounds, featuring pairs of female Geisha figures in traditional attire holding scrol...
Soapstone
Sold
H 36 in W 48 in D 1 in
Chinese Carved Soapstone Geisha Girls 4 Panel Folding Wall Panel or Screen
Located in Plainview, NY
An exquisite vintage Chinese four panels decorative wall panel or screen. The beautiful wall panel or screen depicts Chinese scenes of Gaisha girls dancing as well as gardens scenic...
Soapstone
Japanese Carved Wood and Soapstone Four Panel Screen
Located in Troy, MI
Turn of the century Japanese wood folding screen has four panels of carved and ebonised wood embellished with soapstone floral carvings. Panels are connected with hinges.
Four Panel Chinese Lacquered soapstones Scenery Screen 1940s
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful 1940s Chinese four-panel lacquered screen featuring a courtyard scene of women engaged in leisurely activities on one side, and colorful birds and foliage on the other side...
Stone, Brass
Sold
H 72.25 in W 72 in D 6 in
Mid Century 4 Panel Chinese Black Lacquer MOP Divider Screen Chinoiserie Pagoda
Located in Dayton, OH
Mid 20th century Chinese four panel wall divider or screen. Made of wood featuring black lacquer with mother of pearl and soapstone landscape screen of geishas with children and anim...
Soapstone
Pair Hand Carved Asian Soapstone Panels
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Pair hand carved soapstone panels each panel 20x53" Total 40x53".
Soapstone
Hand Carved Asian Soapstone Panels Set of Four
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
2000 Set of 4 hand carved soapstone panels each panel 12x36" Total 48x36"
Soapstone
Chinese Export Four Panel Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Cheerful Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone. The lacquered panels depict a large blossoming spring tree with songbirds. The scene is bordered by a...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Gilt Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen from late Qing dynasty featuring a carved soapstone and wood pagoda landscape. The lacquered panels are decorated with carve...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Six Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive 20th century Chinese export six-panel coromandel screen featuring a carved soapstone flora and fauna treed landscape screen. Each panel is 16 inches wide lacquered, and de...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Qing Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export late Qing dynasty four-panel folding Coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone. The ebony lacquered panels are decorated with colorful carved scholars ob...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stunning 20th century Chinese export four-panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone beauties in a floral pagoda landscape with gilt clouds. The highly decorat...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Four-Panel Screen Flora and Fauna Soapstone
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stunning Chinese export four-panel screen depicting a colorful landscape embellished with hand carved flora and fauna in soapstone. The screen has vibrant green and blue color pigmen...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Lacquer Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export coromandel style four panel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone beauties in a pagoda landscape. The bottom of the screen has round windows decorated with...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Six-Panel Soapstone Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Off platform sale
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Six Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite 20th century Chinese export six-panel lacquered folding screen featuring intricately carved soapstone of flora and fauna. The carved birds, flowers, and foliage have vivid ...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Four-Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Off platform sale
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Four-Panel Folding Screen of Ebonized Wood and Soapstone
Located in London, GB
This stunning antique Chinese folding screen is of typical form, with four ebonized wood panels. On the front, each panel is delicately inlaid with soapstones in orange, green, blue ...
Soapstone
Chinese Export Six Panel Soapstone Flora and Fauna Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular Chinese export six-panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone flora and fauna decorated panels. The screen has three inset windows on each panel wi...
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Six Panel Lacquered Hardstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary Chinese export lacquered coromandel screen featuring intricately carved hardstone, soapstone, jade, lapis, quartz, and shoustone from Northern Fujian. Each panel measur...
Jade, Quartz, Soapstone, Brass
Set of Four Chinese Lacquered Panels with Palace Pavilion Inlay
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century four panel screen depicts an elegant palatial setting with gilt brushwork and fine inlay of soapstone, agate, jade, and bone. Robed members of the imperial court st...
Agate, Soapstone
Chinese Export Six Panel Lacquered Hard Stone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exceptional Chinese export six-panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring intricately carved hardstone, soapstone, jade, lapis, quartz, and Shoushan stone from Northern Fujian. The ...
Jade, Quartz, Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Six-Panel Hardstone Lacquered Fertility Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
off platform sale
Stone, Soapstone, Brass
Twelve Panel Japanese Screen
Located in Savannah, GA
Early 20th Century Twelve Panel Japanese Screen, fabulous one-of-a-kind piece. Black lacquer background with gilt decoration and applied figures in ivory and soapstone, decorated ba...
Soapstone
Traditional Asian paintings were often created on scrolls and folding screens. Artisans made screens that could be folded up or spread out by connecting several panels using hinges. Today, antique Asian folding screens and paintings are sophisticated decorative accents that can serve as makeshift partitions to ensure privacy.
The original folding screens were created by Chinese artists. The earliest record of screens comes from the 2nd century B.C., and surviving examples date back to the Ming dynasty. Chinese painting utilizes many of the same tools as calligraphy — these screens were crafted from wood with painted panels featuring striking art or calligraphy that told cultural stories or represented nature and life in the area.
The practice was introduced to Japan, where paintings for screens were made on paper and silk, in the 8th century. These paintings frequently feature subjects such as landscapes, animals, flowers and Buddhist religious themes. Along with screens for tea ceremonies and dance backgrounds, there were screens for use in Shinto and Buddhist temples.
In the 17th century, screens began to be imported to Europe where their popularity grew. Coco Chanel famously collected Coromandel folding screens.
Traditional Asian paintings can make a tasteful addition to any wall, and screens can be used as decoration or, in the case of larger iterations, as an aesthetic way to divide a large room. Browse the selection of antique Asian paintings and screens from a variety of styles and eras on 1stDibs.
Decorated with white cranes and the sought-after thousand-butterflies motif, the Meiji-period vessel offers both a celebration of traditional aesthetics and a clear reflection of the era’s appetite for exquisite export pieces.
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