Gilt Leather Screen
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Metal
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Brass
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Leather, Wood
Recent Sales
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Leather
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Leather
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Leather
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Brass
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Leather
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Brass
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Brass
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Leather
Antique 18th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
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Leather, Paint
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Brass
Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
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Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English Screens and Room Dividers
Paint, Wood, Leather
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Belgian Screens and Room Dividers
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Antique 19th Century Italian Screens and Room Dividers
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Leather
Antique 19th Century Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Leather
Antique 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Vermeil, Silver
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Leather, Hardwood
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Leather
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Bronze
Early 20th Century Spanish Screens and Room Dividers
Leather, Wood
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Leather
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Leather, Macassar, Satinwood, Paint
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Leather, Cherry
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Leather, Paper, Wood
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Leather, Mahogany
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Silver Leaf
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Metal
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Metal
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Alpaca, Opaline Glass
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Brass
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Wrought Iron
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Brass
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Metal
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Metal
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Brass
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Marble
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Crystal
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Mirror
Early 20th Century Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
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Crystal, Rock Crystal, Iron
Early 20th Century Balkan Balkan Paintings
Wood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
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Leather, Canvas, Paint
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Upholstery, Oak
Gilt 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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