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Paintings and Screens For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 17th Century
Period: 15th Century and Earlier
Period: 16th Century
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.
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Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Pair of Japanese Two-Fold Screens with Flower Arrangements and Rare Birds
Located in Milano, IT
Karamono with flower arrangements and rare birds Edo period, 18th century Pair of two-panel folding screens Ink, colors, gofun and gold leaf on paper Each 170 by 165 cm ...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Six-Panel Screen Winter Into Spring
Located in Hudson, NY
With snow-covered willow tree, garden stone and winter berries. Right panels have spring flowers and a view of hills in the distance (likely the Higashiyama Hills painted in Kyoto by...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

17th century Japanese Falcon Painting, Mitani Toshuku, Unkoku School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mitani Toshuku (1577-1654) “Falcon” Wall panel, ink and light color on paper. Upper Seal: Mitani Lower Seal: Toshuku Dimensions: Each 118.5 cm x 51 cm x 2 cm (46.5” x 20” x .75”) Individual falcon paintings by Mitani Toshuku (1577-1654), an early artist of the Unkoku School. Founded by Unkoku Togan (1547–1618), a master of the Momoyama period, the Unkoku school enjoyed long lasting patronage in southern Japan. Togan was a retainer of the Mori family in present day Yamaguchi prefecture. Members of the school considered themselves to be in the artistic lineage of Sesshu Toyo...
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Early 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Ming Dynasty Chinese Mural Painting of Buddha Flanked by Attendants
Located in Chicago, IL
This rare mural was painted in China over four centuries ago, and is an exquisite example of Buddhist art. The enlightened Buddha is shown standing at the center of the painting, dre...
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17th Century Chinese Ming Antique Paintings and Screens

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Wood

18th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen Collection of Fans on Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
18th century Japanese Screen of a Collection of Fans. Paintings on fans depict famous Japanese painting subjects, this screen was most li...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Painting, 17th Century, Tale of Genji, Fujibakama, Tosa School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Purple Trousers (Fujibakama), Illustration to Chapter 30 of the Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) Tosa School (second half of the 17th century) Ink, ...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Pair of Japanese Six Panel Screens: Floral Landscape / Mother with Young
Located in Hudson, NY
The first screen is depicting a mother watching her young frolicking under pine tree by river's edge, the second, a mother and her young playing under a ...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Flower Garden
Located in Hudson, NY
Rimpa School painting featuring cascading chrysanthemums as well as cockscombs, summer wild flowers, and a climbing morning glory vine. Beautifully executed, fine painting in mineral...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Painting, Framed Panel, 17th Century Falcon by Mitani Toshuku
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mitani Toshuku (1577-1654) “Falcon” Wall panel, ink and light color on paper. Upper seal: Mitani Lower seal: Toshuku Dimensions: Each 118.5 cm x 51 cm x 2 cm (46.5” x 20” x .75”) Individual falcon paintings by Mitani Toshuku (1577-1654), an early artist of the Unkoku School. Founded by Unkoku Togan (1547–1618), a master of the Momoyama period, the Unkoku school enjoyed long lasting patronage in southern Japan. Togan was a retainer of the Mori family in present day Yamaguchi prefecture. Members of the school considered themselves to be in the artistic lineage of Sesshu Toyo...
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Early 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Japanese Edo Festival Screen, c. 1750
Located in Chicago, IL
This 18th century folding screen is a stunning example of Japanese artistry. Beautifully painted with delicate brushwork, the evocative screen depicts a lively festival during the Ed...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen, Cherry Blossoms Viewing Party
Located in Hudson, NY
A private viewing in picnic surrounding of nobles (probably samurai), including one woman. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper with silk brocade border.
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

18th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Rimpa Painting of Chrysanthemums
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments and gofun on paper with gold dust, and silk brocade border. Painting in good condition and mounting fresh. Signature reads, Shucho Sadayoshi. Japan, second half of t...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Large Antique Zen Japanese Ink Scroll After Sesson Shukei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Sumi ink painting with light color wash mounted with brocade borders as a hanging scroll (Kakejiku). The painting depicts the famously eccentric Buddhist monks Hanshan and Shide (known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku). Often as a pair, they have been a popular motif in Japanese Zen painting...
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18th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

Japanese 17th Century Two Panel Screen, Pine with Gold Dust
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful 17th century painting of pine trees. Painting in good condition on 19th century mounting. Mineral pigments and gold dust on mulberry paper w...
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Late 17th-Early 18th Century Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Battle at Uji Bridge
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen: Battle at Uji Bridge, the first battle at Uji was in 1180 and it marked the start of the Heike Wars. The Genji troops crossed the...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Four Panel Screen Country Genre Scene
Located in Hudson, NY
Depicting farmers, pheasant hunting, picnicking, festival and general village scenes. Ink and mineral pigments on handmade mulberry paper.
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

18th Century Japanese Scroll of Poppies
Located in Hudson, NY
18th century Japanese scroll of poppies. Edo Period (early 18th century) Japanese painting of poppies with lilies in the background. Seal on the lower...
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Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

17C SE Asian Indian Set of 8 Paintings from a Yantra
Located in Dallas, TX
Presenting a stunning piece of Indian Antiquity from the 17th century, namely, a 17th century set of 8 paintings from a Yantra. Hastakara Yantra …. from Western India. This piece has impeccable Provenance ! It was purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Christie’s New York Auction on 21st March 2007. Sale Number 1812, Lot No. 393. Christie’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September. The Lot was described as: “Property of the Estate of Blanche Manso. Eight paintings from a yantra. Western India, 17th century. Each side drawn with a chariot shape divided into blocks of text, numbered and labeled in the margins, decorated with bright pink, yellow and green on handmade paper. 4.25 x 8.25 in (10.8 x 20.9 cm.) each (8). Provenance: From the Collection of Blanche Manso” It carried an Auction estimate of USD 1,000 to USD 1,500 and sold for USD 960 (not including buyers premium...
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17th Century Indian Archaistic Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Attributed to Iwasa Matabei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique ink and color on paper hanging scroll (kakejiku) with brocade border. It appears to be a fragment of a larger hand scroll depicting a procession of a lord with his entoura...
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Early 17th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

18th Century Japanese Kano School Landscape Screen
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Japanese Kano school screen with pine tree, camellias, cherry blossom and Chinese figures in the landscape, circa 18th century. Materials: Pigmen...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Chinese Six-Panel Decorative Folding Screen, Circa 1780
Located in Hollywood, SC
Chinese six-panel folding screen with decorative carved forest with standing and flying cranes, with reverse side depicting village and figures of people, terminating on brass square...
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1780s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two Panel Screen, Hollyhocks
Located in Hudson, NY
Edo period (18th century) furosaki screen (tea screen), with seal of the artist: Jakyu. Korin School painting, employing Kenzan style of split image. (see "Morning Glories" Metropoli...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Silk, Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Deer in Cedar Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Originally fusuma doors, three deer stand in a clearing in a pine forest with gold leaf mist. Mid Edo period painting in mineral pigments on gold leaf wi...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Hawk with Ancient Pine Overlooking Twig Fence
Located in Hudson, NY
Beautiful and dramatic Kano school painting of a hawk perched on a rock. With flowering cherry, peonies, pine and bamboo. Twig fence on the right is made of heavily oxidized silver...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Japanese Four-Panel Screen, Horses in Stable Setting
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Four Panel Screen: Horses in Stable Setting, Edo period painting (17th century) of a very popular samurai subject matter. Samurai were highly...
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17th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Scenes at the Pleasure Quarters, 18th Century
Located in Milano, IT
In the pleasure districts, the stringent codes were meant to be forgotten. In this painting, some clients are watching from outside the teahouse, while some are entering, one of them...
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Chinese Export Hand-Painted Oil on Canvas Painting of Interior Scene w/ Emperor
Located in New York, NY
Chinese Export Exceptionally Hand-Painted Oil on Canvas Painting Depicting Musicians Playing Music for the Emperor while Seated on his Royal Throne. Beautifully executed with great d...
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Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens

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Canvas

Japanese Four Panel Screen: Two Tigers
Located in Hudson, NY
Two tigers exchanging amorous glances. Kano School painting.
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18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Spanish Colonial Screen
Located in Mexico, DF
Fantastic Spanish Colonial school screen. Probably from Peru. This screen, with a kind of European landscape, give us an idea of the influence ...
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18th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique Paintings and Screens

Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen by Kano Chikanobu
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens. One of a pair of screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu - Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) ...
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Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Audubon Landscape with Maple and Pine
Located in Hudson, NY
This is a Kano school painting depicting autumn and winter Mineral pigments with gold dust on mulberry paper.
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Rare Antique Japanese Folding Screen by Kano Tanshin
By Kano Tanshin
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite Japanese folding screen painted and signed by Kano Tanshin (Morimasa) (1658-1719), circa early Edo Period. An important member of the Kano painter family, the son of Kano Tanyu...
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17th Century Japanese Japonisme Antique Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Pair of Antique Japanese Paintings of Karashishi, Edo Period, 18th Century
Located in Prahran, Victoria
A rare pair of antique Japanese Karashishi paintings in a landscape of rocks and peony flowers on gold leaf ground in fine handmade frames, Edo period, early 18th century. The Karash...
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Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen by Kano Chikanobu "Shushin"
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens. Both screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu - Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) (1660 - 1728...
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Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Pair of Antique Japanese Flower Paintings by Yanagisawa Kien, circa 18th Century
By Yanagisawa Kien
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Pair of antique Japanese Nagasaki School paintings by Yanagisawa Kien (1704-1758), depicting classical ikebana flower arrangements. Each painted on silk in mineral pigments and beari...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Japanese Six-Panel Screen "Mother and Her Kittens"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese six-panel screen: Mother and her kittens under flowering cherry tree. Kano School painting, mineral pigments on gold, with beautiful early bronze mounts.
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Late 18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

18th Century Buddhist Chinese Scroll Painting
Located in New York, NY
18th century Buddhist Chinese Scroll Painting. This is a temple piece and has been re-backed numerous times over its life span. The practice...
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Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Romping Cats Under Sago Palms
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Romping Cats Under Sago Palms Beautifully painted mineral pigments on mulberry paper
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17th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Paper

Set of 3 Chinese Watercolor Portraits
Located in New York, NY
Set of 3 Asian Chinese (18/19th Cent) watercolor portraits each with 2 elaborately costumed figures in gilt trimmed frames.
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Late 18th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paint, Paper

19th Century Chinese Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
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18th Century Chinese Other Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paint

Japanese Six-Panel Screen Garden Landscape by River's Edge
Located in Hudson, NY
Kano School painting showing ancient pine, exotic birds, peonies, azalea and cherry tree in bloom on far right. Early Edo period painting, (1614 -...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Six Panel Screen, Morning Glories on a Bamboo Arbor
Located in Hudson, NY
Very early painting of a gold arbor with morning glories, the mulberry paper almost appears polished. Please see close-up photos to show staining from use over the many years (on the...
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Early 17th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Battle Scene from Heike Wars
Located in Hudson, NY
Tosa School painting depicting opposing samurai, Benkei and Yoshitsune, excellent detail, mineral pigments on gold leaf with gold dust.
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17th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Bamboo Grove with Bird and Meandering Stream
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Bamboo Grove with Beautifully Painted Bird and Meandering Stream. Excellent Rimpa School painting with very finely rendered bird, raised gold fencing, wit...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

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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