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Chinese Export Six Panel Coromandel Screen Gilt Courtyard
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stunning 20th century Chinese export lacquered six-panel coromandel screen depicting a lush courtyard over a dramatic gold leaf ground. The lacquered panels are incised and painted w...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Brass
Early 20th Century Japanese Inspired Screen Black Silk With Gold Embroidery
Located in Rümmingen, BW
This beautifully crafted folding screen (paravan) with a classic and elegant design, featuring three panels connected by hinges.
The dark almost black fabric is decorated with intri...
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Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Antique Hand Painted Lotus And Blue Waters Screen Vibrant Colors
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisitions- Hard to Find Lotus Flowers
A stunning Japanese Antique Hand Painted six panel byobu screen on silk executed with lovely lotus flowers and vib...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Japanese Rinpa Screen. White Chrysanthemums. School of Korin.
Located in Kyoto, JP
School of Ogata Korin
White Chrysanthemums
18th Century, Edo period.
A two-panel Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dimensions: H. 171 cm x W. 188 cm (67.5” x 74”)
On this two-panel Japanese screen we see blooming chrysanthemums, a flower which embodies the essence of autumn in Japan. Here the traditional floral theme has been simplified and stylized. The bright colors and asymmetrical composition against the delicate gold leaf create a luxurious and ornate work of art. Its background, a strikingly patinated grid of gold leaf, denies any sense of place or time and imbues everything with an ethereal glow. The leaves and stems of the plants are nothing more than pools of mottled color and ink without any outline whatsoever. These are typical Rinpa adaptations of traditional ink painting methods; tarashikomi, or diluted washes of color blended while very wet, and mokkotsu, or “bonelessness,” which creates forms without exterior outlines. The relief work of the rounded flower petals has been obtained by the moriage process (a mixture based on ground shells modeled on the surface of the paper).
On the lower right of the screen, the siganture “Hokyo Korin Jakumyo” and the “Hoshuku” seal can be read. Korin is Ogata Korin, famed for the Irises (Nezu Museum) and Red and White Plum Blossom (MOA Museum of Art) folding screens, both National Treasures. Korin worked in both Kyoto and Edo in the mid-Edo period. Korin was using the art name “Jakumyo” just after he received the Hokyo level, which was in 1701.
This particular screen was published in May of 1961 in the Japanese Sansai Fine Art Magazine*. An in depth article accompanies the photograph of the screen and and a photograph of the signature and seal. This article devotes much of its body to discussing the moriage technique, how it enlivens the chrysanthemum flowers and Korin’s specific skill in using the technique. The article goes on to discuss the most famous works of Korin, utilizing this technique, which were known at the time. Specifically a two-panel screen held in the Honolulu Museum which was discovered in the store-house of Takahashi Soan. A two-panel screen pair which the Nakano family own. A two-panel screen pair with chrysanthemums in moriage in fan designs owned by the Nomura family. Also a small folding screen featuring chrysanthemums held in the Yamato Bunkakan. The article goes on to say that this particular two-fold screen came from the Nijo family. Korin is known to have had a strong connection with the aristocratic Nijo family. The article explains that Korin received a lot of favors from the Nijo family and that this screen would have been gifted to them.
Since that time the Honolulu screen has been amended to ‘attributed to Ogata Korin’ and I do not know further details of the other 3 screens. Other Chrysanthemum screens...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Two Panel Screen Meandering Stream with Birds
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Weathered Japanese late 18th century Edo period two-panel byobu screen depicting a meandering stream with sparrows in flight. Crafted with natural ink and color pigments on mulberry ...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Meiji Two Panel Screen Flowering Autumn Plants
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating Japanese 19th century meiji period two panel folding byobu screen. The screen features flowering autumn plants and grasses: chrysanthemum, brush clover, Chinese bellflowe...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Silver Leaf
Grand Chinese Export Eight Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export eight panel coromandel double sided screen depicting Han Palace on the front side. The screen features heavily lacquered panels incised with color pigments an...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
20th Century Black Chinese Lacquered Wood Screen, Vintage Room Divider
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A black, vintage Chinese screen made of hand crafted lacquered wood, in good condition. The large, detailed Chinoiserie style room divider is co...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal, Brass
Byobu - Japanese Screen "Kano School" Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
Japanese Kano School Six Panel Screen: Landscape with Beautiful and Elegant Cranes near the River, with Pines and Sakura.
Hand painted with mineral pigments and inks on vegetable pap...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Flower Vases on Silk
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Japanese four-panel Showa period byobu screen depicting colorful floral arrangements in various vases and baskets. The hand-painted screen features vibrant natural color pig...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Prunus with Songbirds
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular late 20th century Japanese Showa period four panel byobu screen depicting blossoming spring prunus or plum trees with songbirds in flight. The screen features a dramatic ...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Gold Metallic, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms
Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981)
Showa period, circa 1930
2-panel Japanese Screen
Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper
Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino.
Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Spring Flowers on Gilt
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming mid-20th century Japanese Showa period four-panel folding byobu screen featuring blossoming spring flowers over a bold gilt background. The painting depicts iris, camella, w...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Circa 1700 Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes & Pines, Kyoto Kano School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Pines and Cranes
Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School.
Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700.
Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens.
Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper.
This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...
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Late 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Gold Metallic, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Screen Pastel Beauties
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring a courtyard scene of beauties engaged in leisurely activities. The lacquered panels are incised and painted in soft pas...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Six-Panel Carved Hardstone Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Magnificent Chinese export six panel folding coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone and hardstone decoration. The lacquered panels have recessed windows showcasing hand-ca...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Soapstone, Brass
Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Screen Tales of the Genji
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a scene from the Classic Japanese narrative "Tales of the Genji". The vibrant, rich colors, gold leaf, and beautiful han...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
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Brass, Gold Leaf
Exceptional Early 20C Korean 8 Panel Hand-painted Silk Screen/Divider
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A STUNNING and EXTREMELY RARE and DESIRABLE Early 20C Korean 8 Panel Hand-painted Silk Screen or Divider.
This screen consists of ...
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Early 20th Century Korean Country Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Large Japanese 2-Panel Byôbu 屏風 'Room Divider' with Painting of Bamboo & a Poem
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Beautiful, large two-panel byôbu (room divider) with a serene painting of red-leaved bamboo and rocks on an oxidized silver leaf background. Silver leaf continuously undergoes the process of oxidation, which creates a beautiful aged patina.
On the left an inscription from a ‘Zekku’ poem by the Chinese poet Yang Zai (1271?1323), titled: Shan shang zhu (bamboo (painted) on a fan).
Translated as :
Why would people plant a lot of bamboos?
The shade of a single culm is also beautiful.
In the autumn night it rocks on the wind,
And the fresh sound echoes in my dream.
Dated: Shôwa, the year kôshin (1938). Signature unknown...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Metal Paintings and Screens
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Other, Silver Leaf
Chinese Export Four Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Celestial Chinese export coromandel four-panel screen depicting figures in colorful robes in a heavenly landscape among the white clouds. Eac...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Screen, Early 20th Century Wagtail & Chrysanthemum by Ishizaki Koyo
Located in Kyoto, JP
Ishizaki Koyo (1884-1947)
Wagtail & Chrysanthemum
Early 20th century
Folding screen in two-panels. Ink, pigments and gofun on gold leaf.
Sign: Koyo
Seal: Koyo
This ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid 18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Crows & Pines by Unkoku Toshuku.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Unkoku Toshuku (1722-1779)
Crows and Pines
A pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink and gold leaf on paper.
Dimensions: Each Screen: H. 170.5 cm x W. 375 cm
Haha-cho or mynah birds, whose forms resemble crows in artwork, were commonly depicted in Japanese art. These types of paintings were originally modeled on paintings attributed to the 13th century Chinese painter Muqi (Mokkei), whose art was enormously influential in Japan. Crows only became a theme among Japanese artists from the later 1500s onward. They likely were inspired by these imported Chinese paintings of myna birds, which are not native to Japan, substituting the native species of crow instead.
The best known early examples of the depiction of Japanese crows are two Momoyama screen...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Lacquered Four Panel Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully weathered Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen decorated on both sides. The screen features a pavilion landscape on one side and a floral and fauna landscape on th...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Brass
19th Century Japanese Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Mid-19th Century Japanese sixfold screen with atmospheric Nanga style painting.
Black ink over gold leaf on paper, of a peaceful mountainous landscape emerging from mist. In the fore...
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19th Century Japanese Chinoiserie Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Lacquered Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Distinctive Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring carved hardstone and soapstone decoration. The screen depicts a group of beauties in colorful flowing robes. The parcel-gilt landscape is decorated with two large carved stone trees...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Soapstone, Brass
Vintage Roman Column 6 Panel Architectural Incised Privacy Screen Room Divider
Located in Wayne, NJ
Large decorative 6 Panel Architectural privacy screen room divider. Will go well with style decor . From Traditional to Modern. This is a heavy in weight piece. Many details are inc...
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1970s Unknown Modern Vintage Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Early 20th Century Japanese Screen Pair - Ink Pine Trees on Gold
Located in Kyoto, JP
Imao Keisho (1902-1993)
Pine Trees
Early 20th Century, Circa 1930
Pair of six-panel Japanese screens. Ink on silk and gold leaf.
Dimensions: Each screen H. 67.5” x 148” (172 cm x 376 cm)
A pair of monumental six-panel Japanese pine screens by the renowned Nihonga artist Imao Keisho. Here Keisho entirely removed the background and brought the pine trees to the surface of the painting. This simplification of the elements makes the scene exceptionally direct and compelling and injects a very modern...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Edo Six Panel Screen Flowering Morning Glory
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Spectacular 19th century late edo period six panel byobu screen featuring flowering morning glory vines (as-agao). Machi-eshi or anonymous town artist painter crafted in an amalgamat...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Antique 19th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen ‘Byobu’, Kano School, Edo Period
Located in London, GB
Japanese Kano School Edo period two-panel screen depicting flowering prunus and bamboo on a rock formation, with colorful birds next to a body of water. ...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Japanese Floral Paintings, Set of 5, Mineral Pigments on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
A set of 5 Japanese floral paintings from the 18th century. Each painted with mineral pigments directly applied to gold leaf. They were originally designed to be mounted on the leave...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Lacquered Six Panel Coromandel Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully weathered patina Chinese export lacquered coromandel screen with six double sided panels. The screen features a mountain landscape on one si...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Stunning Set of Four 19th Century Edo Period Fusuma Door Decorative Panels
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A set of four fusuma (sliding door) panels from the 19th century, painted in ink and colors on gold leaf. The panels depict a blossoming cherry tree extending beyond a woven fence an...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Gold Leaf, Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export four panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring hand-carved soapstone beauties in a floral landscape with gilt clo...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Qing Twelve Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Early 20th century Chinese late Qing dynasty twelve panel lacquered coromandel screen. The grand screen features a royal pavilion courtyard...
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20th Century Chinese Qing Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Tall Eight Panel Lacquered Coromandel Chinese Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A tall, eight panel lacquered coromandel Chinese screen. Crafted of enamel and black lacquer, decorated with figures in a court setting. Reverse side depicts flowering plants. Panel...
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20th Century Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Enamel
Chinese Export Six Panel Coromandel Screen Gilt Courtyard
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exceptional 20th century Chinese export six panel coromandel screen featuring a busy idyllic courtyard scene with a dramatic gilt background. The screen has six panels lacquered and ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Screen Cranes on Gold Leaf
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dazzling Chinese export lacquered four-panel coromandel screen featuring a flora and fauna waterscape with stylized cranes. The carved lacquer panels...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Brass, Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring beauties in a pagoda pavilion landscape. Beautifully crafted from intricately carved soapstone in vivid colors and fasci...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
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Soapstone, Brass
Japanese Showa Six Panel Screen Manchurian Crane Bamboo Grove
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Enchanting Japanese Showa period six-panel byobu screen titled "Bamboo Forest-Immortal Together". The large screen depicts six manchurian cranes in a ...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Edo Period Seasonal Transition Screen
Period: Edo
Size: 368 x 153 cm
SKU: PTA148
This exquisite six-panel screen, adorned with golden flakes, beautifully portrays the seamles...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Japanese Four Panel Byobu Screen: Mandarin Ducks by Snowy Pond in Early
Located in Sheridan, CO
Antique Japanese Four Panel Byobu Screen: Mandarin Ducks by Snowy Pond in Early Spring.
Kano School painting of a weeping willow tree with branches over a stunning indigo blue pond. ...
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Early 20th Century Meiji Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Metal, Gold Leaf
Asian Polychrome Coromandel Black Lacquer Enamel Eight-Panel Court Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
Chinese Polychrome Coromandel Black Lacquer Eight-Panel Court Screen. Comprised of 8 lacquered coromandel panels, this Chinese folding screen is intri...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Enamel
Japanese Showa Two Panel Screen Pair of Tethered Hawks
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Captivating Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen featuring a pair of hawks or birds or prey tethered to a wooden perch. The painting has ink and natural colored pigme...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Unique Reverso Room Divider by Draga & Aurel
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Reverso room divider by Draga & Aurel
Price for each piece. Please contact us
Unique piece
Dimensions: W 29 H 271
Materials: Resin, po...
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2010s Italian Modern Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Original Lithograph Joan Miró, Ceramiques, 1974
By Maeght, Joan Miró
Located in San Diego, CA
Joan Miró, Ceramiques, is an original Lithograph made in 1974. It has a printed signature in the lower right of the image. Published and Printed by Maeght, Paris. M.928.
Joan Miró w...
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1970s French Expressionist Vintage Metal Paintings and Screens
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Chrome
Edo 19th Century Japanese Folding Screen Six Panels Battle of Menpei
Located in Brescia, IT
Samurai on horseback and by boat from the famous battle of Menpei Japanese folding screen six-panel of "Tosa School" painted with mineral pigments on vegetable on golden silk , earl...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
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Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Chinese export four panel coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone decoration. The panels are crafted from lacquered wood expertly fitted into frames with mortise and te...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Export Eight Panel Coromandel Screen Pagoda Courtyard
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic large Chinese export eight-panel coromandel screen featuring a colorful pagoda courtyard with figures engaged in leisurely activities. The large screen measures 7 feet high...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Evolving Elegance: An Oxidized Silver Screen from the Meiji Period
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This anodized 6-panel screen captures the serene and minimalistic beauty of a bamboo grove, embodying the aesthetic principles of the Edo period. The screen features subtle and delic...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Gold Metallic, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Plum & Young Pines. Kano School.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Dimensions (Each screen): H. 176 cm x W. 378 cm (69’’ x 149’’)
This pair of Japanese folding screens depict blossoming plum trees amongst young pines. They are designed to capture t...
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Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pink Floral Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on White Silk / Roll
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 3 ft x 8 ft.
The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be app...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Metal Paintings and Screens
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Silver Leaf
19th Century Japanese Screen for Tea-Ceremony, Ink Bamboo and Plum on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
Three Friends of Winter
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871)
Late Edo period, circa 1850
Ink and gold leaf on paper.
This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions.
The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year.
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Meiji Period Silver Oxidized Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Meiji Period Silver Oxidized Screen
Period: Meiji
Size: 174 x 174 cm (68.5 x 68.5 inches)
SKU: PTA107
Step back in time with this Meiji period screen, where the allure of silver ox...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Superb Japanese Landscape Scroll with Sakura and Bamboo, 16th–17th Century
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A refined and poetic Japanese landscape painting dating from the late Muromachi to early Edo period (16th–17th century). Executed in mineral pigments on paper, the composition captur...
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Early 17th Century Asian Edo Antique Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Showa Four Panel Screen Fall Persimmon Tree
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Beautifully weathered Japanese Showa period four-panel byobu screen depicting a persimmon tree in the fall. Ink and natural color pigments on light gold silk background. Made in the ...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Metal Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
