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Paintings and Screens For Sale
Period: Mid-20th Century
Period: Early 20th Century
Japanese Four Panel Screen, Golden Sun Through Turbulent Surf
Located in Hudson, NY
Golden sun viewed through red maple above turbulent waves. Mineral pigments on gold and silver ground with silk brocade border.
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Sun over Cresting Waves with Golden Clouds
Located in Hudson, NY
Sun rising over cresting waves through tropical trees. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper with gold dust and brocade.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Gold

Japanese Gilt Wood Panel Deer at the Base of Mount Fuji
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1262 Japanese gilt wood panel deer at the base of mount Fuji.
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1940s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Fruitwood

Pair Asian Hand Carved Soapstone Wall Panels #2
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-1060 Pair hand carved soapstone panels.
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1940s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Soapstone

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Mountains in the Mist with Tree-Lined Foothills
Located in Hudson, NY
Verdant landscape of mountains and rolling foothills shrouded in mist. Mineral pigments on silk with gold dust. Raw silk backing.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Gold

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Clouds of Golden Mist
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments and gold on mulberry paper. Signature reads: Bunrei-Ga.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Gold

Asian Egret Large Diorama
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-941 Hand made diorama using bird feathers and natural fauna set in a lacquered wood frame under glass.
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1960s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Feathers, Hardwood

Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...
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1920s Chinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Paper

3-Panel Screen with Smoked Mirror
Located in New York, NY
3-Panel Screen with Smoked Mirror and painted metal frame.
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1960s American Modern Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Metal

Early 20th C Chinese Linhai Painted Panel
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1900 Chinese wood panel from the Linhai region features a hand painted scene of birds in a flowering tree. Brass hanger at the top. Unknown ar...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Antique Tibetan Thangka of a Deity
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A vibrantly colored Tibetan Thangka of a multi armed Deity, Tibet Circa 1900, framed in a gold tone frame under glass, Measures: 28 inches tall, 30.75 inches wide.
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Early 1900s Tibetan Antique Paintings and Screens

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Fabric

Framed Korean Folk Shamanistic Painting of Seven Stars
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean folk painting watercolor on linen (silk) with a cloth mat and walnut wood frame. The work is in the shamanistic style and depicts the Tao...
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Early 20th Century Korean Folk Art Paintings and Screens

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Textile

Japanese Four Panel Screen, Snowy Mountain Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Hinoki (Japanese red pine) and other deciduous trees in mineral pigments on mulberry paper. Signature reads: Yosui.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Sheep Resting under Grape Arbor
Located in Hudson, NY
Soft mineral pigments on silk with brocade border. Signature and seal read: Jyogyu
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk

Japanese Screen of Spring on Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
It is a two-panel screen from the Taisho period, around 1920, beautifully painted in excellent detail. The best of Rinpa's school painting: large empty space that highlights a pair of mandarin ducks in the middle of the pond. On the right, flying birds give the painting a great lightness, under many multicolored flowers they celebrate spring. All very proportionate and pleasant, the dimension really interesting. Mineral pigments on gold leaf. It turns out Anonymous. Lucio Morini.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Chinese Silk Embroidered Screen or Room Divider Believed to Be Late Qing Dynasty
Located in Nova Scotia, NS
What a magnificent one-of-a-kind Valentine's Day gift this would be! Wow!! Four panel Chinese silk embroidered screen or room divider believed to be created during the late Qing Dynasty. Four ivory silk embroidered panels housed in a wooden frame form the screen or room divider. The 100 bird...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Leather, Fabric, Textile, Tapestry, Thread, Natural Fiber, G...

Chinese Early 20th Century Brown and Red Eight-Panel Screen with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese two part eight-panel wooden screen from the early 20th century, with low-relief carvings, gilt motifs and calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this screen features a brown lacquered ground accented with dark red highlights, and adorned with low-relief-carved motifs in its upper section, depicting scrolling cartouches with central rosettes. Each panel showcases a vertical organization of gilded calligraphy in the center, followed by an horizontal section with scrollwork surrounding a central medallion. The lower part is adorned with additional motifs carved in low relief, depicting either vases, birds and flowers, fishes or monkeys. The ensemble is completed by meanders creating a perfect visual punctuation. The screen is currently made of two parts with four panels each. Boasting a nicely distressed patina, this early 20th century Chinese eight-panel carved wooden...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Japanese Four Panel Screen: Autumn Flowers and Moon on Gold
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on gold leaf.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese / Asian Oversized Egret Landscape Painting 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Asian influence oversized egret landscape painting Unframed  
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1940s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Paint

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Bamboo with Calligraphy Poem
Located in Hudson, NY
Moon and bamboo in ink on gold paper with red and black lacquered negoro frame. (Meiji period) Calligraphy reads: Beauty in ink painting with standing woods and branches, like in par...
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Chinese Antique Six-Panel Folding Screen with Stained Glass Geometric Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese antique six-panel folding screen from the early 20th century, with green, blue and yellow stained glass, geometric motifs and wooden panels. Created in China during the first half of the 20th century, this large folding screen features six panels each adorned with a careful arrangement of opaque octagonal motifs surrounded by colorful stained glass with scrolling or textured motifs. The lower section is made of delicately raised panels surrounded by recessed accents. Folding screens likely originate back to the Han Dynasty, circa 200 BC as evidence in tombs shows. The Chinese considered screens as objects of contemplation and a source of spiritual and creative inspiration. The screens were used to protect from drafts, to provide a sense of privacy or to simply partition a room. With its nice proportions and complimenting colors, this Chinese antique stained glass folding screen...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Stained Glass, Wood

Chinese Early 20th Century Brown and Red Two-Panel Screen with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese two-panel screen from the early 20th century, with carvings, gilt motifs and calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this screen features ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...
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1920s Chinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Pair of Collectable Antique Persian Hand Painted Oriental Scenes on Silk Framed
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of circa 1880-1900 Persian hand painted silk wall hangings depicting oriental scenes. A very...
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Early 1900s French French Provincial Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paint

1950s Asian Eight-Panel Silk Embroidered Folding Floor Screen Room Divider
Located in Germantown, MD
A beautiful Chinese Embroidered Eight-Fold Floor Screen or room divider in good vintage condition. Stunning roses, birds butterflies embroidered. ...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens

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Fabric, Silk, Wood

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Flowers by River's Edge
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on gilded silk with gilded bronze hardware. Signature reads: Shunkan.
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1930s Japanese Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Bronze

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Flowers by River's Edge
Located in Hudson, NY
Mineral pigments on gilded silk with gilded bronze hardware. Signature reads: Shunkan.
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1930s Japanese Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Bronze

Japanese Two-Panel Screen "Women in Western Dress"
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Women in Western Dress, Nihonga style painting of two young women in Western style summer clothing, sitting at water's edge and cooling off by putting their feet in the water. Showa period painting...
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1930s Japanese Showa Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

"Unai No Tomo" Early 20th C. Japanese Illustrated Toy Books, Volumes #2, #3, #4
Located in Norton, MA
Early 20th century Japanese illustrated toy books. "Unai No Tomo". Ca. 1911. 3 volumes from the larger set. Each volume includes numerous color woodblock illustrations of various toy...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

Chinese Hand Carved Stone Figural Wall Panel #3
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Chinese hand carved colored stone figural wall panel #3 2 other panels available See 3-1052 1and 3-1053.
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1950s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Soapstone

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Lacquer Penguins
Located in Hudson, NY
Beige ground lacquer with black and grey lacquer penguins with small pieces of shell making up white areas. Lacquer on wood. Writing reads: Lacquer Screen By Izumi Atsuhiko. It was ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Shell, Wood, Lacquer

Japanese Silver Screen Pair, Meiji Period, Herons & Plovers, Shijo School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Heron & Plovers Ink and silver leaf on paper Maekawa Bunrei (1837-1917) A pair of low six-panel Japanese screens by Maekawa Bunrei, a later master of the Kyoto based Shijo school of painting. On the right screen a solitary white heron stands motionless in a stream. On the left screen plovers play along a shoreline. The elegant forms are executed employing fluid, minimalistic ink brushstrokes. The soft brushstrokes and the sharp light of the silver leaf lend the scenes a sense of translucence. The sophisticated composition superbly exploits the long, horizontal pictorial surface of the pair of folding screens...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Middle Eastern Miniature Painting of Peacocks in Mosaic Frame
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Middle Eastern miniature painting of peacocks framed in a Moorish micro mosaic inlaid picture frame. Middle Eastern miniature painti...
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Mid-20th Century Asian Moorish Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Superb and Architectural Chinese Carved Wood and Glass Four-Panel Screen
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Provenance: Christie’s. The panels with carved figural vignettes- floral vines at the top, the bottom with small ones with figures at various tasks in landscapes with houses, the lar...
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Early 20th Century Asian Qing Paintings and Screens

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Wood

circa 1930 Japanese Silver Screens by Isoi Joshin, Flowers of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers of the four seasons Isoi Joshin (1883-1964) Pair of six-panel Japanese screens Ink, pigment, lacquer and silver leaf on pa...
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Mid-20th Century Asian Showa Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Antique Japanese Meiji Period Silk Embroidered Screen Room Divider Byobu C.1900
Located in London, GB
Antique Japanese Meiji period silk embroidered screen /room divider Byobu C.1900 Kyoto, Japan. Silk embroidered satin lacquer framed panels....
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Lacquer

Modern Signed Oriental Watercolor Woman with Child
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Modern signed oriental watercolor Woman and Child with a fish Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certifica...
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Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Antique Japanese Wood Block Printed Table Top Folding Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Antique Japanese small table top four panel folding screen. Wood block print on paper. First quarter 20th century. Perfect to use as wall art.
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Four-Panel Folding Screen Byobu Signed Showa Period C.1950
Located in London, GB
A four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a floral scene with birds. Japan, C.1950 Showa Period An attractive example, beautifully h...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paper

Four Chinese Hardwood and Mother of Pearl Inlaid Panels
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A set of four antique Chinese decorative panes with mother of pear inlay. The panels with floral and branch with various birds hand inlaid into a hardwood panel. The four panels may ...
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Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens

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Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood

Middle Eastern Miniature Painting on Shell
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand Painted Asian Persian miniature painting on a sea oyster shell. Middle Eastern Moorish design miniature painting on shell, very fine ...
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Mid-20th Century Asian Moorish Paintings and Screens

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Shell, Mother-of-Pearl

Signed Asian Coromandel Eight Panel Screen Expandable Room Divider
Located in West Hartford, CT
Magnificent Asian coromandel expandable room divider. Great scale with height of 94" and vivid colors throughout. Some age appropriate wear, see pics. Now more than ever, home is whe...
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Mid-20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chinese Hand Carved Stone Figural Wall Panel #1
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Chinese hand carved colored stone figural wall panel #1 2 Other panels also available See dealer #'s 3-1053 and 3-1054.
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1950s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Soapstone

Japanese Modern Abstract Ink Painting
Located in Hudson, NY
On mulberry paper with silk brocade. From the estate of Andrea Bollt. Artist's seal reads: Mitsushito (died 1922).
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Early 1900s Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk, Paper

Bali Hindu Textile Framed 'Kamasan' Painting, Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
An early 20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. It has been framed with a ...
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Early 20th Century Balinese Folk Art Paintings and Screens

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Cotton, Paint

Antique Japanese Medicine "Kanban" 'Shop Sign', Late Meiji Period
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Medicine "Kanban" (Shop Sign) with mirror, Meiji Period. The Medicine being advertised is a soothing cream used to relieve itchin...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Lacquer

Pair of Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This pair of Chinese portraits depicting young women & their dogs were painted using a reverse glass painting technique. Painting in reverse on the opposite side of a piece of glass ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood, Paint

Oriental Woman, Enamel on Board, Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental woman is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by an Oriental artist. Mixed colored enamel on board. The painting...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Enamel

Framed Korean Folk Painting of General Guan Gong
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean folk Shamanism watercolor on textile matted with woven brocade and presented in a wood frame with an oriental style metal hanging hardware. The painting was estimated to be from early 20th century circa 1910-1930s. It depicts Guan Yu (160-220AD), a legendary Chinese warrior and general from Eastern Han Dynasty. Long worshiped in China as a deity, across all three major religions, Guan Gong...
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Early 20th Century Korean Folk Art Paintings and Screens

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Textile, Brocade

Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting of a Royalty Related Couple with Dragon Motifs
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese late Qing Dynasty period framed painting from the early 20th century of a royalty related couple with dragon motifs painted on a linen canvas. Created in China during the late Qing Dynasty in the early years of the 20th century, this custom framed painting depicts a couple wearing either a red (a symbol of luck in China) or green robe. The depiction of dragons relates them to the Imperial family, but having four claws and not five as codified, the couple is likely part of the royal family, not the Imperial couple themselves. Accented with typical motifs such as bats, flaming pearls and rain-filled clouds, the robes are filled with symbols. Wearing ornate headdresses, the couple is sitting on elegant chairs. Set inside custom made frames, the paintings show great signs of age. While the entire piece measures 40.5"W x 1"D x 53"H, the painting itself is 36.5"W x 49". With its vivid colors and interesting subject, this Chinese Qing Dynasty painting...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Paintings and Screens

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Fabric, Plexiglass

Vintage Landscape Impressionist Oil Painting by "Gabri"
Located in London, GB
A stunning original vintage landscape oil painting on canvass. This is signed by the artist “Gabri”, it dates from around the 1960’s. It is beautifully executed and depicts an abs...
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Mid-20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paint

Vintage Four Panel Lacquer and Carved Hardstone Screen
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
An early 20th century Asian black lacquer screen with carved coloured hardstone figures and scenery.
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1950s French Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Stone

Chinese Hand Carved Stone Figural Wall Panel #2
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Chinese hand carved colored stone figural wall panel #2 2 other panel available See 3-1052 and 3-1054.
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1950s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Soapstone

Pierre Jeanneret PJ-Divers-01 / Authentic Mid-Century Modern
Located in Zürich, CH
This room diver is a fantastic piece. It is raw in its simplicity and additionally a very rare piece. Its usable as space separator. I love to put objects l...
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1950s Indian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Cotton, Teak

After a 16th Century Indian Mughal Style Painting
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mughal print after a 16th century Indian hand painting in wood gilt frame. Indian Mughal School, illuminated India Rajasthan Indian Mughal School, illumi...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Agra Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Pair of Burmese Early 20th Century Giltwood Framed Paintings
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A pair of vibrantly colored Burmese water color paintings of Deities. The early 20th century paintings in mid 20th century professionally framed giltwood frames.
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Early 20th Century Asian Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Decorative Panel Encrusted with Asian Mother-of-pearl in the Vase
Located in Marseille, FR
Pair of decorative panel encrusted with Asian mother-of-pearl with fish signed. many gaps on one of the two panels. Dimension height 106 cm for a width of 54 cm. Additional inform...
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Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Japanese Vintage Screen After Hiroshige "Tokaido Road" Byobu 28 Prints
Located in South Burlington, VT
This unusual Japanese six-panel Byobu screen with twenty eight (28) authentic and old Hiroshige Tokaido Road series ukiyo-e prints applied on paper, ...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Paper

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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