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Paintings and Screens For Sale
China Trade Painting on Paper depicting Feeding of Silkworms
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade Painting on Paper,
Silk Processing-Feeding of Silkworms,
Circa 1780-1820
A fine China Trade watercolor and gouache on paper depicting two of the steps in the processing ...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Lovely Fusetsu NakamuraScroll Painting Japan Artist Flowers Painted
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Fusetsu Nakamura
1866-1943
of the Showa-life painter and calligrapher
Tokyo students
real name: Taro
issue: Fusetsu, Kanzan, Anakatatei, Goinoshishi teacher, long life, Reitsubotoki
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$1,581 Sale Price
20% Off
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 screens...
Category
1920s Japanese Taisho Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper, Silk
Chinese Six-Panel Lacquer Screen
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Chinese six-panel lacquer screen.
This lovely and versatile screen is in the great style of Coco Chanel who loved to decorate with Coromandel s...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
$2,400 Sale Price
33% Off
Important Japanese six-fold screen depicting The Tale of The Genji, 17th century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese six-fold screen, depicting episodes from The Tale of The Genji
Edo period, 17th century
Ink and colour on gilded paper, H. 155 x W. 380 cm
The Tale of Genji...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Moon and Blossoms Hand Painted Scroll
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Hand painted scroll of moon and flower blossoms
Will be shipped rolled up
Size 28 x 72" open
28 x 3" rolled up.
Category
1960s Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
$232 Sale Price
59% Off
Pair of Japanese Two Panel Screens Edo Period Vignettes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive pair of Japanese two-panel byobu screens featuring late 18th-century edo period applied vignettes, poems, and paintings in various formats over a dramatic gold leaf square...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pair of Japanese Edo Screens Minogame Turtles in Spring Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful pair of 19th century Japanese Edo period six-panel byobu table screens depicting pairs of Minogame turtles in spring landscapes. Made in the Kano school style one screen...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Six-panel gold leaf screen
Located in Brescia, IT
Large Japanese six-panel screen, ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper, depicting three scenes from Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), the vignettes punctuated by raised golden...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
$16,788
Summer Flowers Eight-Panel Botanical Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Summer Flowers Eight-Panel Botanical Screen
Period: Late Edo
Size: 352x117 cm (138x46 inches)
SKU: PTA42
Immerse yourself in the splendor of late Ed...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
"19th-Century Monkey Portrait: Captivating Wildlife Art"
Located in Southall, GB
This captivating 19th-century monkey portrait captures the lively expression and unique charm of its subject with exquisite detail. The artist's skilled brushwork and attention to th...
Category
19th Century English Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Japanese Four Panel Screen: A Scene from the Tails of Genji
Located in Hudson, NY
Lady Aoi and attendant within the palace walls with beautifully painted sudari and fabric with wonderful detail in unusual pastel colors. Mineral pigments on paper with dark brown l...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
Japanese Six Panel Kano School Winter Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large Japanese Meiji period six-panel screen depicting a winter landscape with a Chinese sage visiting friends in a country villa. Ink and vivid color pigments on mulberry paper mounted to a gilt background. Painted in the 19th century Kano school...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
Korean Two-Panel Silk Screen from 1975
Located in Lomita, CA
This authentic two-panel Korean screen is from the 20th Century and is highlighted with the design of two painted silk screen panels over a ...
Category
20th Century Korean Other Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$880 Sale Price
71% Off
Circa 1920 Japanese Screen. Cat & Mouse Harvest Scene on Gold Silk.
Located in Kyoto, JP
The narrative playfulness of the scene depicted on this Japanese screen sets alight what is at its core a celebration of a bountiful harvest. The screen offers a visual representatio...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold
Thangka Tibetan Painting Green Tara Hand Painted Gilt
Located in Somis, CA
An exceptional, most unique, extra long hand painted Tibetan Thangka featuring the beloved Green Tara. Seated on a high lotus throne with a pair of holy beasts, her right leg extende...
Category
2010s Nepalese Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Paint, Wood, Paper
$775 Sale Price
50% Off
Japanese Painting, Framed Panel, Dahlias and Roosters, circa 1920
Located in Kyoto, JP
Tanaka Tessen (b.1890)
Dahlias and Roosters
Taisho period, circa 1920
Framed painting. Mineral pigments and ink on silk.
Dimensions (framed):
H. 159 cm x W. 97 cm x D. 2.5 cm (62.5” x 38” x 1”)
An ornate and complex composition in which the artist explores almost the entire painting surface. The coloration is bold and evocative and the tinted silk ground recreates the warm golden glow of sunset. Soft, luminous brushwork details the black feathers of the roosters, which seem to cloud and blur in counterpoint to the sharper points of the eyes and beaks. Their brilliant red combs balance the composition, echoing the rich burgundy hues of the dahlias; the flowers exquisite and lifelike. Dahlias were an exotic subject favored by painters of the Taisho era.
The painting belongs to the school of Kyoto Nihonga, exemplifying the principles of decorative elegance and consumate brush technique with which it was intimately associated. Painters of the time relied on the Shijo school method, basing the forms of the composition from life sketches. Sometimes they were then integrated with elements derived from Chinese bird and flower...
Category
1920s Japanese Taisho Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Silk
Antique pair of Chinese reverse painted pictures, the Emperor and Empress C 1920
Located in Central England, GB
A very decorative rich and colourful pair of pictures are hand painted in reverse on panes of glass. This is a very difficult and highly skilled process where the finest detailing has to be painted first unlike traditional artwork. Both pictures show very similar images, one of the Emperor and the other of the Empress both wearing fabulous elaborately decorated silk gowns. They are seated on an impressive throne chair with white marble carved elephants on blue stands in the background standing on a detailed tiled floor.
These superb paintings are displayed in their original carved hardwood frames with a black lacquered finish. The backs are panelled and held in place with neat rectangular wooden pegs.
On the back, there appears to be old chalked detail from an auction or saleroom, Hinkley, lot 37 library.
The frames have decorative cast brass hanging plates...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Early 19th Century Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Tropical Garden
Located in Hudson, NY
With a banana leaf palm on the left, at water's edge with geese. Perhaps a scene from the southern islands. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper with gold leaf and a silk brocade border.
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
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...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
Lovely Nihonga Scene Meiji/Taisho Period Scroll Japan Artist Landscape Boats
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Axis: Vertical 192 cm, Horizontal 38.3 cm
Inside: Vertical 130 cm, Horizontal 35 cm *Some errors will occur in the dimensions. Please understand.
I don't know the details of the au...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$815 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Japanese Edo Six Panel Screens the Seven Sages
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic pair of 19th century Japanese late Edo/early Meiji period six-panel screens titled The seven sages of the bamboo grove. The Kano school screens...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century Japanese Nihonga Scroll. Crow & Persimmon.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Anonymous.
Crows & Persimmon
Japanese Scroll. Pigments and Ink on Silk.
Dimensions:
Scroll: H. 235 cm x W. 106 cm.
Image: H. 168 cm x W. 86 cm.
Bird and flower paintings are oft...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
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 ....
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Hibiscus In Bloom
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Hibiscus in Bloom, Meiji period (1868 - 1912) painting of hibiscus flowers reaching for the sun in full bloom. Mineral pigments on silk with a silk brocad...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Antique Japanese genuine Woodblock print by Koson Ohara. Meiji period
Located in London, GB
Ohara Koson was a prolific printmaker of the early twentieth century widely known for his kacho-ga, bird and flower prints. During his study with Kason, he took his artist name Koson...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Chrysanthemums
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen: Chrysanthemums, Edo period (circa 1800) painting of a variety of chrysanthemums in a garden landscape, with sparrows. Mineral p...
Category
Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bali Hindu Textile Framed 'Kamasan' Painting, Indonesia C. 1950
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This striking vintage Balinese Kamasan painting, rendered on handwoven cotton, beautifully captures the timeless elegance of classical Wayang-style st...
Category
1950s Balinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Cotton, Paint
Antique 19th c Woodblock Print - Utagawa Hiroshige II Shigenobu
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
For the similar print see
https://worcester.emuseum. com/objects/13667/landscape
Condition
Good condition: 12.8x7.8cm
Period
19th century
Category
19th Century Chinese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$518 Sale Price
20% Off
Chinese Eight Panel Folding Table Screen Landscapes Poems
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating Chinese Qing style 20th century eight panel folding table screen. The panels each features an idyllic landscape scene with a Chinese poem and artist seal. The reverse sid...
Category
20th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
Fine Asian Brush Painting of Pheasant and Quail
Located in Greenwich, CT
Fined Chinese brush painting of a pheasant and a quail under a plum tree, ink and color on silk, 19th century, Conservation framed
Painting was a scroll acquired from Sotheby's webs...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Edo Period Rimpa School Golden Screen - Summer Florals
By Rimpa School
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Edo Period Golden Screen - Summer Florals
Period: Edo
Size: 285 x 92.5 cm (112.2 x 36.4 inches)
SKU: PTA141
This Edo period screen is a golden-framed window into the summer gardens...
Category
18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
A spectacular Chinese 18th century Coromandel Lacquered 8-panel floor screen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A spectacular and most impressive Chinese 18th century Coromandel Lacquered screen. Each of the eight panels are raised by two feet formed from an urn shaped arch below a foliate decorated band. The center of each panel joins together to depict various scenes executed in the Kuan Cai or "incised colors" technique. The front side of the screen features bottom panels showing various birds on/near a variety of blooming trees, while the central panel depicts a battle scene on horseback through hills and forests. The tops show a variety of vases holding floral branches, and bowls of fruit mirroring...
Category
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
20th Century Three-Panel Asian Screen in Red with Palm Leaf Accent
Located in Waxahachie, TX
20th century Asian three-panel screen or room
divider in red with palm leaf decoration.
Striking crimson red will accent any room.
Good vintage condition with age appropriate wear.
...
Category
20th Century Chinese Hollywood Regency Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
$1,500 Sale Price
40% Off
Set of Four Carved Elm Screen Panels with Fretwork, Foliage and Floral Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A set of four Chinese carved elmwood screen panels from the 19th century, with fretwork motifs and foliage decor. What is not to love about this set of four screen panels? Presenting...
Category
19th Century Asian Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Elm
Japanese Six-Panel Screen Horses in Stable
Located in Hudson, NY
Kano School painting of horses in stabile, with a monkey. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.
Category
Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Large Venier Screen by Sebastian Herkner
Located in Geneve, CH
Large venier screen by Sebastian Herkner
Materials: black powder-coated metal, Hide
Dimensions: W 248 x D 2.5 x H 177.8 cm
Other dimensions available: small: W248 x D2.5 x H141....
Category
2010s French Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal
$22,268 / item
Japanese Silk Painting of Young Girl, Framed
Located in Bradenton, FL
Unique 19th Century painting of a Japanese girl standing atop a large furry mythical creature, with a small bird flying in the left upper corner. Signed in top right corner. Soft ear...
Category
20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paint
B16 Japanese Antiques 6panels, Silver Paper, folding Screen checkered pattern
Located in Niiza, JP
Silver foil folding screen
Material: Paper pasted on wooden frame
1 piece: Width 600 x Height 1745 x Depth 15 mm
Expanded size: Width 3660 mm
Folded size: Width 615 x Height 1745 x D...
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Meiji Period Painted Screen with Gold Fleck Paint
Located in Stamford, CT
Japanese Meiji period (1868-1912) painted screen with gold fleck paint. Remounted during Showa period (1926-1989).
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Artisan's Cache of 25 Old Chinese Paint Calligraphy Bamboo Brushes
Located in South Burlington, VT
Here's a rare find from a collector we visited in Japan. A very unusual treasure....
This is a cache of old Chinese and Japanese bamboo paint and calligraphy artist brushes dating ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo
$156 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand Painted Tibetan Thangka Painting Buddha Shakyamuni White Gold
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisitely hand painted Tibetan Thangka by one of our master artists in Nepal featuring Buddha Shakyamuni. On lotus throne above ocean waves and an altar bowl overflowing with fl...
Category
2010s Nepalese Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paint
$750 Sale Price
51% Off
Antique Japanese Folding Chamber Screen /Paravent Early 20th century Japan Crane
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
A super nice Japanese Chamber screen. Also suitable for wall mounting.
Good condition and lovely colors
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$4,556 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Antique Chinese Watercolor on Paper Paintings of Mythological Figures
Located in Big Flats, NY
Pair of Antique Chinese Watercolor on Paper Paintings of Mythological Figures Signed 19thC.
Measures - 20.25"H x 17"W x 1"D.
Thi...
Category
19th Century Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
$280 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Portrait of Motor Yacht Thirsty Lady ii
Located in Norwell, MA
Portrait of the motor Yacht "Thirsty Lady II". Signed lower right "John Austin Taylor". Framed under glass. Not examined outside the frame. No obvio...
Category
20th Century North American Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Highly decorative Chinese Coromandel Screen
Located in Santa Barbara, CA
Late Meiji period Chinese Brown and Polychrome Coromandel Lacquer Eight Panel Screen.
Charming continuous village screen with gorgeous brown lacquer and polycrhomed village scene ...
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Lacquer
Indian Mughal Miniature Painting in Vizagapatam Inlay Frame
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Indian Mughal Miniature watercolor painting in white inlay frame
Indo-Persian hand painted watercolor miniature watercolor painting in very fine art w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Agra Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)
Plum Tree and Birds
Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
In this evocative ink work spread over a six-panel folding screen, we see the consummation of the elegance and refinement of the Edo Kano school. This 17th century screen is a rare surviving example of a large-scale bird and flower painting by Kano Naonobu, the younger brother of Kano Tanyu...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Pair of Japanese Silver Leaf Meiji Period Painted Screens
Located in Dallas, TX
The product is a pair of Japanese silver leaf Meiji period painted screens. These screens showcase intricate artwork and designs typical of the Me...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese Coromandel Red Lacquer 12-Panel Figural and Landscape Screen. Circa 1840
Located in Charleston, SC
Chinese Coromandel figural red lacquer 12-panel screen depicting pagoda and landscape scenes, decorative gilt floral border panels, gilt carved lower panels, and reverse side depicti...
Category
1840s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer, Paint
19th-Century Bird Portrait: Timeless Avian Art
Located in Southall, GB
This exquisite 19th-century bird painting captures the elegance and vibrant beauty of its subject with remarkable detail and artistry. The artist’s meticulous attention to the bird’s...
Category
19th Century English Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Japanese Meiji Period Painting Scroll Night Landscape Nihonga Japan Artist Sign
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Japanse school Boerderij in bamboebos in maanlicht
Rolschildering / scroll op zijde, benen rollers. B 140.4 x 42 / 198.5 x 54.5 cm
140.4 x 42 / 198.5 x 54.5 cm.
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$1,486 Sale Price
20% Off
B15 Japanese Antiques 6panels, Silver Paper, folding Screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Silver foil folding screen
Material: Paper pasted on wooden frame
1 piece: Width 595 x Height 1740 x Depth 18 mm
Expanded size: Width 3610 mm
Folded size: Width 615 x Height 1740 x D...
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Tibetan Thangka
Located in Hudson, NY
This fine vintage painted work is richly filled with small figures surrounding a large central figure. All interspersed with clouds and religious symbols. The colors are deep but muted with time and age. The piece is newly bordered in rich Chinese silks edges in three strong colors setting the piece of nicely and making a strong impression. The Thangka is framed overall in a gilded simple frame.
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done to the best of our knowledge, as is the case with any antique and vintage item,
there is a possibility that at some point in the life of the piece that there
may have been damaged which has been professionally repaired and
as such a repair undetectable, it is therefore impossible for us to disclose...
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Early 20th Century Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paint
Japanese Three Garden Rabbits Family, Usagi
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese acquisitions and coming from a Japanese collector of rabbit usagi sculptures
Rabbit family trio (3) seated rabbit sculptures hand cast and hand painted
This is an unusual Japanese one-of-a-kind group in both large and small scale
Quality: Hand cast with carved ears...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze, Iron
$280 Sale Price / set
62% Off
Japanese Ink and Watercolor 4-Panel Floor Screen
Located in Astoria, NY
Japanese Four-Panel Floor Screen, Ink and Watercolor on Paper, mounted on board, depicting mountainous landscape scene with seaside village. Panel: 55.25" H x 24.75" W; whole: 99" W....
Category
20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Japanese Buddhist Monk Signed Muryo-Doji Painting Praying Women and Calligraphy
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful Japanese hand-painted brush Muryo-Doji Buddhist painting (likely sumi ink) on colored paper featuring three praying women and what appears to be kanji calligraphy - proba...
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Large Colorful Pichhavai Silk Asian Painting with Krishna and Radha
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A large Pichhavai painting depicting Krishna, represented in multiple places with female Gopis dancing and offering, great colors, the composition is enclosed in a lush green forest ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Mid 19th Century Framed Japanese Painting. Spider & Morning Glory.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Obata Tosho (1812-1886)
Spider & Morning Glory
Late Edo period, mid 19th Century
Framed Japanese Painting. Ink and color on paper.
Individually framed 19th century bird and flowe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Vintage Pichhavai Painting of Krishna and Gopis, Gouache on Silk Rajasthan India
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Pichhavai Painting of Krishna and Gopis, Gouache & Gold on Cloth, Rajasthan
Vibrant Indian miniature painting in the Pichhavai style depicting Krishna’s Raas Leela with Radha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Antique Asian Paintings and Screens
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.
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