$1,295
H 45 in W 46 in D 16 in
Vintage Chinese Black Lacquer Oriental Fireplace Screen Fire Screen Divider
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Chinese Black Lacquer Oriental Fireplace Screen Fire Screen Divider. Item featured is painted on both sides with village scene and bird scene, black lacquer finish, nice impr...
Wood, Lacquer
Black Lacquer Oriental Fire Screen, Painted with Flamingos
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Black Lacquer Oriental Fire Screen, Painted with Flamingos A superb black Lacquer Chinoiserie Fire Screen, with a velvet panel painted with Flamingos and waterlilies in a forest wa...
Velvet
$7,315
H 72.84 in W 72.45 in D 15.75 in
Large Vintage Dressing Screen, Oriental, Folding, Privacy, Room Divider, Retail
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage dressing screen. An Oriental, mahogany folding privacy screen or room divider, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1970. Of wonderful proportion and appea...
Mahogany
$5,822
H 1 in W 64 in D 72 in
A Very Fine 19th Century Four Fold Oriental Screen With Hide Painted Panels
Located in Dublin, IE
A very fine and unusual 19th Century Country House Oriental four folding screen with beautifully patinated hide panels and exquisite hand painted imagery in original distressed condi...
Hide, Wood, Paint
$612
H 34.85 in W 60.44 in D 0.79 in
VINTAGE EXOTIC ORIENTAL BIRDS & FLOWERS FOLDING FOUR PANEL PETITE ROOM DIViDER
Located in Pulborough, GB
Antiques of London A beautiful and decorative vintage four-panel folding room divider, hand-painted with an Oriental design featuring exotic birds, flowering branches, and natur...
Hardwood
Six paneled Oriental Screen
Located in So. Egremont, MA
Hand painted gold leaf background with flowers, clouds, birds
and Bamboo
Wood, Paper
20th Century Oriental Style Foldable Screen
Located in London, GB
Swedish foldable screen from the mid-1900s with three panels and hand painted wallpaper insets. Measures: 135 W x 179 H x 2 D cm (Each section measures 45 cm). Good vintage con...
6 Panel Coromandel Laquer Oriental Room Divider
Located in New York, NY
Six panel coromandel laquer room divider depicting various Chinese scenes.
Oriental Lacquered Screen
Located in New York, NY
Beautifully carved Oriental bi-fold screen. The ebonized wood frame intricately carved with a large bird and leaf design that is continued down the sides and onto the bottom panel. ...
Antique Oriental Wooden Screen with English Lacquer
Located in Milano, IT
Antique oriental separator from the 19th century, of fine oriental manufacture. This separator is made entirely of wood, with painted designs, created by 3 doors that close again. ...
Wood
Big Oriental Chinese folding screen Bamboo with Silk 1950
Located in Oirlo, LI
Mid-Century Modern bamboo wooden folding screen, screen or partition with four wall panels. Bamboo in combination with a beautiful drawing of flowers and birds in cheerful colors lan...
Bamboo, Silk
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H 74.41 in W 63 in D 0.79 in
Oriental Four Panel Folding Screen, Double Sided Room Divider, Partition
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an oriental, four panel, folding screen, a double sided room divider or partition dating to the late 20th century. Astonishing detail to the profusely decorated screen A...
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H 72 in W 96 in D 1.5 in
Chinese Hardstone Chinoiserie Decorated Oriental 6 Panel Screen, 20th Century
Located in Big Flats, NY
A vintage Chinese chinoiserie decorated room dividing screen offers ebonized black lacquer finish with village landscape scene with figures, pagoda structures and bridge with hardsto...
Stone
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H 72 in W 18 in D 1 in
Vintage Oriental Soapstone Geisha Girl 4 Panel Room Divider Dressing Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Oriental Soapstone Geisha Girl 4 Panel Room Divider Dressing Screen. Item features four folding sections, decorated on both sides, carved soapstone raised figures, central pa...
Soapstone
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H 72 in W 92 in L 72 in
Large Vintage Black Lacquer Oriental Chinese Carved Soapstone 5-Panel Screen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large vintage 92" black lacquer Oriental Chinese carved soapstone 5-panel screen. Item includes figural carved soapstone scenes, black lacquer finish, 5 panels, free standing, very n...
Soapstone
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H 72.05 in W 63 in D 0.99 in
Oriental Gold Leaf and Hand Painted Four Panel Screen Decorated with Cranes
Located in London, GB
A 1970s oriental gold leaf and hand painted four panel, brass hinged screen beautifully hand painted and decorated on the front with cranes, flowers, blossom and birds. The back is d...
Gold Leaf
1970s Oriental Room Divider
Located in Antwerp, BE
Fabel scene room divider. European, 1970s. Oriental inspired. H 200 cm L 160 cm.
Wood, Acrylic
Oriental Ebonized Four Panel Garden Scene Dressing Screen 20th C
Located in Big Flats, NY
An oriental Asian dressing screen offers four ebonized panels with garden scene having birds and flowers, raise on square and straight legs, 20th C. Measures- 84.5''H x 96.5''W x .7...
Wood
A handsome hand-painted oriental screen / room divider, 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
A handsome vintage oriental partition or room divider, 20th century. Hand-painted with Asian birds and flowers in tones of licorice, maraschino, and frond green against a glowing gol...
Wood, Paint
Oriental screen
Located in New Orleans, LA
6-panel Chinese screen
Wood, Lacquer
Oriental Coromandel Screen
Located in So. Egremont, MA
This Unusual Chinese Coromandel Screen in dark brown and ivory was not made for the export market.The graphic quality of only having two colors and the unique use of negative space m...
Paint
Oriental 6 Panel Screen
Located in Wainscott, NY
20th Century Oriental Screen, Wood Painted
with Mother of Pearl insets
Oriental Coromandel Eight-Panelled Screen
Located in Stamford, CT
Oriental screen, circa early 20th century.
Wood
Coninental Screen Painted in the Oriental Manner
Located in London, GB
Continental Screen painted in the Oriental manner comprising eight panels.
Wood, Paper
Late 19th Century Oriental Four Fold Lacquered Screen
Located in Peterborough, Northamptonshire
A very good quality Oriental four fold lacquered screen. Imagined islands and foliage to the front and the reverse with stylised foliage flowers. When closed the width 15.5 inches.
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H 83.5 in W 120 in D 1 in
20th Century Oriental 10-Panel Lacquered Screen with Cranes & Bamboo, Gold Tones
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dramatic 20th century oriental 10-panel lacquered screen with cranes and bamboo at daybreak, gold tones Each panel: 18" W x 1" D x 83.5" T Overall: 180" W No hardware.
Wood
19th Century Leather Studded Room Divider with Three Panels
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A 19th century studded leather three-sectional folding screen, or room divider, its decorative leather panels backed with canvas, and stretched over a hinged wooden frame. This unu...
Leather
Spanish 19th Century Leather Folding Screen
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A mesmerizing, Spanish 19th century tooled leather folding screen–over six feet tall–embossed with floral & foliate motifs that cover the surface to expansive effect. The four connec...
Metal
18th Century Chinese Heavily Detailed 8-Panel Coromandel Screen
Located in New Orleans, LA
18th century Chinese heavily detailed 8-panel Coromandel screen, decorated on either side, with carved open work at top and bottom of each panel, heavily gold-leafed. On the front ar...
Giltwood
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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