Beautiful Japanese folding screen/Byôbu, six panels, Taishô /early 20th century.
Located in Stockholm, SE
An equisite decorative and functional six panel folding screen / buôby, perfect as a room divider or large wall painting.
Wood, Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Four Panel Folding Byobu Screen Eternal Spring Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Showa Period Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a beautiful nature scene with a stunning piercing blue blossoming flowers placed along the waterway landsca...
Gold Leaf
$236Sale Price|20% Off
Japan Small Folding Two-Panel Blue Furosaki Tea Screen Contemporary Simplicity
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan folding two-panel tea screen furosaki byobu depicting a simple cream colored back ground with a blue border, colors on paper 21.5” high and 74” wide when fully extended.
Paper, Fabric, Wood
Paravent japonais - A two-fold Japanese screen with nightingales - Edo period
Located in Brussels, BE
A two-fold Japanese paper screen, painted in ink and colour on a buff and gold ground, with a mountainous river landscape.
Gold Leaf
Tall 2-sided 6-panel Rinpa School-style Japanese folding screen
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very rare and exceptional tall six-panel byôbu (folding screen) featuring refined Rinpa School–style paintings on both sides, each panel centred around an inset sudare (rattan blin...
Gold Leaf
Paravent Japonais - A six-fold Japanese screen with quails - Edo period
Located in Brussels, BE
A six-fold paper screen painted in ink and colour on a gold ground with a covey of uzura (quails) and chicks amongst kibi (millet), grasses, nokongiku (aster) and tampopo (dandelion).
Gold Leaf
Tall Japanese 6-panel folding screen with Tosa School genre painting
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An amazing, tall six-panel byôbu (folding screen) presents an elaborate Tosa School genre painting set against a backdrop of gold leaf, capturing lively celebrations across various s...
Gold Leaf
B113 Old Japanese Art, Silver Paper, folding Screen, Ink painting Fox's Wedding
Located in Niiza, JP
Silver paper folding screen, ink painting Material: Paper , wood frame 1 piece: Width 390 x Height 870 x Depth 15 mm Expanded size: Width 2340 mm Folded size: Width 390 x Height 870 ...
Paper
70s contemporary three fold asymmetrical painted screen in Japanese style
Located in London, GB
A stylish three fold asymmetrical plywood screen of Japanese style painted Koi carp moving against a swirling green water background.
Plywood
Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Red Crowned Crane Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape scene with a flock of playful red crown cranes (likely Manchurian cranes), a flowing river, an...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Flower Cart Screen, 19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen. Listing as Meiji period but could very possibly Edo period.
Gold Leaf
B84 Japanese art, Ink painting on gold folding screen, Sailor, 2-panel
Located in Niiza, JP
*Please be careful when handling folding screens as the joints are prone to weakening.
Paper
Japanese Asian Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landcape Bridge with Iris Flowers
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature lake/landscape scene with a water walkway/angular bridge and blossoming iris flowers - perhaps an homage to the ...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Korean Chinese Signed 4-Panel Folding Byobu Cherry Blossom Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel hand painted Japanese Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a wildly and brilliantly colorful fully blooming Spring cherry blossom tree with a wonderful composit...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Vintage Japanese Gold Leaf Iris Four-Panel Folding Screen After Ogata Kōrin
Located in Sheridan, CO
Beautiful Japanese four-panel folding screen in the style of celebrated Rinpa master Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716).
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Chinese Four Panel Folding Byobu Sumi Ink Screen Buddhist Monk
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful four-panel Japanese (or perhaps Chinese) Byobu folding screen featuring an elderly Buddhist Zen monk and young novice boy crossing a lake/river/waterway by slow skiff boa...
Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Large Edo Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Monkeys Trees
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, wonderfully composed six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen/room divider depicting a family of playful monkeys among the blooming trees and mountainous lands...
Gold Leaf
B121 Old Japanese 6panels Byobu, Paper, folding Screen with Flower＆bird painting
Located in Niiza, JP
Light stains all over, sunburn and slight tears on the paper on the back *Please handle with care as the joints of the folding screens are prone to weakening. It is a special techni...
Fabric, Paper
B120 Old Japanese 6panels Byobu, Paper, folding Screen with Flower＆bird painting
Located in Niiza, JP
Light stains all over, sunburn and slight tears on the paper on the back *Please handle with care as the joints of the folding screens are prone to weakening. It is a special techni...
Fabric, Paper
Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Playful Birds Cherry Blossom
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape cherry blossom tree branch scene with a flock of playful birds and blooming Spring flowers.
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Asian Four Panel Folding Byobu Screen Cherry Blossom Tree Playful Birds
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a natural landscape cherry blossom tree branch scene with a two of playful flying birds.
Silver Leaf
Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Hokusai Great Wave
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, absolutely stunning, thoroughly engaging four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen featuring a faithful recreation of renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's woodbl...
Gold Leaf
B99 Old Japanese 6panels, gold byobu, ink bamboo painting, right, folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
It is a special technique in which the folding screen is connected with paper instead of hinges.
Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screen of Playful Court Scene
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite fascinating hand-painted six-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a rather engaging androgynous or erotic court scene (it has been suggested to us that thi...
Gold Leaf
B100 Old Japanese 6panels, gold byobu, ink bamboo painting, left, folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
It is a special technique in which the folding screen is connected with paper instead of hinges.
Paper
Japanese Asian Pair of Large Six-Panel Folding Byobu Screens Mythical Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, alluring, wonderfully composed and engaging hand-painted large pair of six-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screens depicting an almost magical/ mythical village scene...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Two Panel Meiji Edo Byobu Cherry Blossom Tree Folding Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, large two-panel antique Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene with a venerable cherry blossom tree and a running river with blooming flowers.
Silver Leaf
Japanese Asian Signed Two Panel Meiji Edo Folding Byobu Landscape House Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, large two-panel antique Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene with a lone house, perhaps a tea house, hidden in the trees and foliage with dist...
Gold Leaf
B3 Japanese Antiques 6-panel, gold back, flower & bird duck, folding screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Material: paper, wooden frame One sheet: W580×H1750mm, unfolded size: W3520mm, 10kg Folded size: W600×H1750×D105mm Estimated packaging (sandwiched with 5mm plywood): 21cm x 70cm x 18...
Paper
Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Genji Screen Lady Murasaki
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous and quite striking four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen featuring an elegantly clad Lady Murasaki, the Japanese novelist, (and famed author of the classic "Tale of Gen...
Gold Leaf
17th Century 'Late 1600s', Japanese Edo Period 12-Panel Folding Screen Painted
Located in North Miami, FL
A pair of 17th Century (Late 1600s) Japanese Edo screens made of 12-panels. This folding silk screen is painted on a gold leaf background.
Silk, Wood, Paint, Paper
Paravent - A pair of four-fold screens with Japanese chestnut - Edo period
Located in Brussels, BE
A pair of four-fold Japanese screens painted in ink and colour on a gold ground with kuri (Japanese chestnut) flowers on a knoll.
Gold Leaf
Large Japanese 6-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screen) with chrysanthemum garden
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very colourful and captivating large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) with a refined continuous painting of a luscious flower garden filled with many different types of chrysanthem...
Gold Leaf
Paravent - A small six-fold Japanese screen with autumn flowers - Edo period
Located in Brussels, BE
A six-fold paper screen painted in ink and colour on a gold ground with autumn flowers and grasses.
Gold Leaf
Japanese Chinese Asian Two-Panel Byobu Folding Screen Ancestral Immortal Figures
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite large, boldly colored, and alluring hand-painted two-panel Chinese/Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting 18 exquisitely clad male ancestral or immortal figu...
Gold Leaf
19th C. Edo-Meiji Period Japanese Painted Five-Panel Folding Miniature Screen
Located in North Miami, FL
19th century/Edo-Meiji period japanese painted five-panel folding miniature screen By: unknown Material: lacquer, metal, paint, wood Technique: carved, hand-carved, hand-painted, la...
Metal
Early 20th Century Pair of Japanese Folding Screens, Deer Under Maple Trees
Located in Kyoto, JP
Deer under maples Late Taisho period, circa 1925-1930 Pair of two-panel screens. Ink and pigment on silk. Signature: Goho Seal: Goho A pair of two-fold Japanese silk s...
Wood, Paper, Silk
Japanese Contemporary Red Black Cream Folding Screen Silk Brocade Kimono Art, 3
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Exceptional Japanese contemporary two panel "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style handcrafted silk raised kimono Japanese decorative art in crimson red, black and gold o...
Gold
Japanese Asian Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tale of Genji & Cherry Tree
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tale of Genji" featuring various characters in a cherry blossom tree villag...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tale of Genji & Cherry Tree
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tale of Genji" (the beautifully clad woman in the flowing kimono could very...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Edo Meiji 6 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Red Crown Cranes Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite large antique six-panel Japanese Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape scene with red crowned cranes, other playful birds and boldly colored blossoming S...
Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Signed Four Panel Folding Byobu Nanban Ship at Sea Arrival Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, quite engaging four-panel Showa Period Japanese Nanban (Namban) Byobu folding screen depicting the exotic arrival by ship and activities of Southern Barbarians (Portugue...
Gold Leaf
Paravent japonais- A pair of six-fold Japanese screens with clematis- Edo period
Located in Brussels, BE
A pair of six-fold Japanese screens depicting white and bluish-purple clematis on trellises behind woven fences and beside a stream, against an abundance of golden clouds.
Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese Hand Carved, Black Lacquer Table Top 4-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Pasadena, CA
Black lacquer panels decorated with carved Mother of Pearl + Bone Birds and cherry blossom branches.
Bone, Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
B74 Old Japanese antiques 6panels, Plain folding screen with the base left as is
Located in Niiza, JP
Plain folding screen with the base left as is Material: Paper on wooden frame One piece: W580×H1740mm×D15mm, Unfolded size: W3500mm Folded size: W590×H1740×D100mm, 7kg Estimate packi...
Paper
B82 Old Japanese antiques 6panels, Plain folding screen with the base left as is
Located in Niiza, JP
Plain folding screen with the base left as is Material: Paper on wooden frame One piece: W580×H1740mm×D15mm, Unfolded size: W3500mm Folded size: W590×H1740×D100mm, 7kg Estimate packi...
Paper
Paravent - A six-fold Japanese screen with grape vines - 17th/18th century, Edo
Located in Brussels, BE
The metal mounts are decorated with cloisonné enamel, a special detail rarely seen on screen mounts. Japan, 17th/18th century, Edo period.
Enamel, Gold Leaf
Antique Chinese Folding Chamber Screen / Paravent Early 20th century Japan Crane
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A super nice Chinese Chamber screen. Also suitable for wall mounting. Good condition and lovely colors
Bronze
B02 Japanese Antiques 8 panels, set of 2, flowers and birds, gold folding screen
Located in Niiza, JP
A set of 2 folding screens, with a total of 16 paintings to enjoy.
Paper
Pair of Japanese hinagata byôbu 雛形屏風 (small folding screens) with flower carts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An amazing pair of six-panel hinagata byôbu (doll festival folding screens) with a continuous painting on gold leaf showcasing flower carts (hana’guruma) at the edge of a winding riv...
Gold Leaf
A two-panel folding screen with a pair of deer
Located in Milano, IT
A Japanese two-panel folding screen painted on paper with applications of gold powder, depicting a pair of deer among wind-swept reeds.
Paper
An eight-panel silver-leaf folding screen depicting a spring scene
Located in Milano, IT
A distinctive eight-panel folding screen with a silver-leaf ground and golden clouds, depicting a spring scene with a rooster, hen, and chicks beneath a blossoming cherry tree.
Paper
East Asian Extra Wide Folding Low Six Panel Landscape Divider Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
A 95 inches East Asian Extra Wide Folding Low Six Panel Landscape Divider Screen with beautiful landscape scenes. Measures 95" in width, 33" in height and 1" thick.
Metal
Japanese Decorated Lacquer and Painted Folding Screen
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Japanese Decorated Lacquer and Painted Folding Screen This impressive screen has four superbly decorated panels with a montage of Geisha, Japanese Garden and Animals all made from ...
Lacquer
A two-panel folding screen with bamboo plants on gold leaf
Located in Milano, IT
A Japanese two-panel folding screen painted with pigments on a gold leaf ground, depicting a group of bamboo plants.
Gold Leaf
A six-panel folding screen depicting a shishi, signed Kano Tsunenobu
Located in Milano, IT
A six-panel folding screen painted in ink and pigments on paper. At the center of the composition stands a large shishi (lion-dog), while to the right, a blooming peony bush emerges ...
Paper
A six-panel folding screen painted on silk depicting a spring garden
Located in Milano, IT
A Japanese six-panel folding screen painted on silk with a gold ground, depicting a spring garden.
Silk, Paper
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.
For 25 years, gallerist Betsy Nathan has leveraged her keen eye and key connections to bring a unique selection of rare finds to the market.
Now working alongside his daughter Bianca, dealer Joel Chen has presented a most covetable array of antiques, art and contemporary creations for more than 40 years.
From cherry-blossom-adorned walls paired with glamorous lighting to wood-paneled ceilings above checkerboard-patterned chairs, these 12 spaces seamlessly blend Eastern and Western aesthetics.
The dealer and curator has spent the past 50 years amassing a collection of exceptional art, furniture and architectural elements that trace the cultural influence of the Spanish empire from Europe to the Americas and beyond.
These spaces exemplify how Eastern elements elevate a home's decor.