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Period: Early 20th Century
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Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Screen Landscape Hunting Scene
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen depicting a hunting scene with various warriors and animals spread across a vast, mountainous ...
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Japanese Showa Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Burmese Kalaga Tapestry
Located in Asheville, NC
Beautifully embroidered with glass beads, metallic wrapped thread, metal sequins and beads, this tapestry seems to come to life with its rows of dancing women and mythical creatures....
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Burmese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

Antique Impressionist Oil Painting by A. Michaelis
Located in London, GB
A beautiful and interesting original antique oil painting signed by the artist A. Michaelis. This is dated from 1937, it is in the impressionist manner. It is beautifully executed...
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European Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Canvas

Japanese Two-Panel Screen Temples Through Misty Forest
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two-panel screen: Temples Through Misty Forest. Chinese School landscape ink painting on gilded silk by Yukimatsu Shunpo, signed and dated 1924. Yukimatsu Shunpo was born in...
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Japanese Taisho Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Silk

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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Japanese Showa Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese 2-Panel Furosaki’byôbu 風炉先屏風 'Tea-Ceremony Folding Screen' with Dragons
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A striking low and wide two-panel furosaki’byôbu (tea-ceremony room divider) painted with two bright white dragons (ryû) flying amidst swirling black clouds. The left dragon holds a ...
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Japanese Chinese Korean Asian Signed Framed Hand Painted Tiger Scroll Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and striking framed Asian tiger scroll painting featuring a regal tiger in the moonlight. This work is hand-painted with masterful brushstroke...
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Japanese Showa Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paint

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Craggy Landscape on Gold Sil
Located in Hudson, NY
Dramatic Mountain landscape with gnarled pines. Signature reads: Shunsen. Ink painting on gold silk with silk brocade border.
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk

Chinese Patriarch and Matriarch Ancestral Scroll Painting
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Magnificent Chinese scroll ancestor painting showing patriarch and matriarch of a high ranking status civil official. This unusual scroll depicts the dignitary couple seated below a ...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paper, Wood, Paint

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Bamboo and Manchurian Crane
Located in Hudson, NY
Kano style painting in mineral pigments on silk with a silk brocade border.
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk

Verre Eglomise Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Antique Verre Eglomise Chinese Export reverse glass painting. Beautiful Chinese reverse glass painting of two women in a Chinese garden with a scroll. This painting is particularly vibrant and exquisite in color and detail. The wood frame painting...
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Chinese Export Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Japanese Two Panel Screen: A Boy and His Shiba Dog on Temple Grounds
Located in Hudson, NY
Artist: Katsumi Aizu, who won many awards at Inten Exhibition. Ink and mineral pigments on mulberry paper with a silk brocade border.
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk, Paper

20th Century, Oriental Coromandel Lacquered Wood Screen
Located in IT
20th century, Oriental coromandel lacquered wood screen Measures: cm H 183,5 x W 40,5 a panel x D 2. Total W cm 162 Elegant four-panels screen ...
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Asian Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chinese Antique Monumental Buddhist Wooden Pagoda Tower, 70 Inches
Located in South Burlington, VT
China antique monumental Wooden Pagoda, total height is 70 inches, hand carved and hand painted wood, seven hexagonal sections plus finial, late Qin...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

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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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Antique Taisho Period Tanzaku Woodblock Print of Heron at Twilight by Seiko
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Taisho period Japanese woodblock print. Depicting a swooping heron above a riverbed with a thin sliver of a crescent moon in the background. By Seikо̄. Seikо̄ is tho...
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Japanese Taisho Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Meiji Period Painting Scroll Landscape Masuda Amison 1886 in Osaka
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Masuda Amison  (1886- ? ) Japanese painter. Commonly known as Wasaburo   Born in 1886 in Osaka.   He lives in Koroen, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture....
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Wading Deer
Located in Hudson, NY
In Japan, it is a Shinto belief that the deer is a treasured and sacred animal. This admirable scene captures this gentle creature in its natural habitat with beautiful detail in bot...
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Lacquer

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Flowering Vines and Wisteria
Located in Hudson, NY
Wisteria represents sentiments of love and longevity as vibrant floral colors dance dramatically amongst the two panels. Mineral pigments on Mulberry paper with a natural wood trim....
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen: Mandarin Ducks Among Dry Lotus
Located in Hudson, NY
Natural scene of Mandarin ducks gliding gracefully amongst the water. Mineral pigments on silk with silk brocade border and natural wood trim. Seal reads: Kei.
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood

Chinese Reverse Glass Painting of Taoist Immortals, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effect, this exacting technique doesn't allow for any corrections, and is only revealed to its full effect when the glass pane is turned around. This example dates to the late 19th century and depicts the Taoist immortals He Xiangu and Cao Guojiu. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, the Eight Immortals each represent a different condition in life and impart blessings of prosperity and longevity. The charming scene is likely one of a set of...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Japanese Two Panel Screen: White Tiger Grotto
Located in Hudson, NY
A mysterious passageway with natural rocky detail as the scene drifts deep into the darkness. Dyed fabric mounted with a natural wood trim. Signed on back and lower right corner. Sig...
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Fabric, Wood

Japanese Six Panel Screen, Peonies and Young Growth on Gold Silk
Located in Hudson, NY
Rimpa floral scene. Pigment on gilded silk, signature and seal read: Hattori Shunyo. Bold colors and strong design elements combined with the trademark tarashikomi (diluted elements created when water is applied to the surface before or after pigments causing them to diffuse) exhibit the artists deep devotion to this important Japanese painting tradition. Notes about artist: Hattori Shunyo (b. 1883) was an artist from Kyoto who graduated the (now) Kyoto Municipal University of Art and fell under the circle of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk

Chinese Two Panel Carved Painted Screen Bone Wood 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Chinese carved wood and bone 2 panel screen.
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Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

Materials

Bone, Hardwood

Meiji Period Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Birds by Hasegawa Gyokujun
Located in Kyoto, JP
One hundred birds Hasegawa Gyokujun (1863-1921) Meiji period, circa 1900. Ink, color and gofun on silk. Dimensions of each screen: H. 170 cm x W. 190 cm (67’’ x 75”) Despite the title, well over 100 birds are represented in this pair of two-fold Japanese screens (the title functions figuratively to convey the idea of a large number). The monumental work is rendered with a comprehensive and highly complex composition which is exquisitely executed and meticulously colored. More a celebration of naturalism than the traditional “One Hundred Birds” paintings which originated in China. This was a subject matter known for its auspicious meaning as much as its actual depiction of nature. These paintings generally had a phoenix (occasionally peacocks) placed in the center, and the other birds paying homage to it. In this quintessentially Japanese scene painted by Gyokujun, a couple of long-tailed birds modeled after paradise flycatchers are included; these are traditional auspicious motifs in Oriental bird and flower painting and denote themes such as celebration and enduring generations. In addition there is the playful inclusion of single exotic parrot. Even so, the vast majority of the birds and flowers are native to Japan. Reading the scene from right to left, from spring through to autumn, the overwhelming sense is one of movement and haste. It is almost as if the birds are in a race, with the fleetest leading the way forward. Although these native birds were commonly drawn amongst artists of the Shijo school, rarely were they painted with such drama and dynamism. It is not strictly a depiction of sketched birds whose manner was faithfully handed down through the traditions of the Shijo school. Rather we see Gyokujun seeking and achieving new expressions in the heart of the turbulent Meiji period. Hasegawa Gyokujun (1863-1921) was born in Kyoto. He was the eldest son of Hasegawa Gyokuho, a Shijo school painter who studied under Matsumura Keibun. Gyokujun studied painting under his father and became a prominent member of the Kyoto painti ng world from a young age. In 1891 he established the ‘Young Painters Social Club’ along with Takeuchi Seiho, Miyake Gogyo and Taniguchi Kokyo. Also in 1891 he was selected as a judge of the Great Private Paintings Exhibition along with Takeuchi Seiho, Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Japanese Meiji Antique Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood

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 ...
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Indian Agra Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk

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

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Gold Leaf

Pichhavai Hindu Painting of Radha and Krishna with Female Gopis
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Large Pichhavai Hindu Painting of Radha and Krishna with Female Gopis. Pichhwai Hindu Painting of Krishna and Radha framed under glass. Kris...
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Indian Folk Art Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Glass, Wood

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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French French Provincial Antique Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Paint

Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Peace & Prosperity
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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Chinese Folk Art Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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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

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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Chinese Chinese Export Antique Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Mother-of-Pearl, Hardwood

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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Japanese Antique Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk

"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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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paper, Silk

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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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

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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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brass

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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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Stained Glass, Wood

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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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paper

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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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

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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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Shell, Wood, Lacquer

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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Japanese Antique Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Brocade, Silk, Paper

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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Asian Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

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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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Enamel

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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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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

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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Balinese Folk Art Early 20th Century 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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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Lacquer

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...
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Japanese Taisho Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper, Silk

Pair of Chinese Antique Screens, Doors, Orchids and Pomegranates
Located in Somis, CA
This is a pair of beautiful, early 20th century Chinese antique door screens. The top section is formed by a Chinese longevity pattern, which are c...
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Chinese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chinese Reverse Glass Painting of Woman, Early 20th Century
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
This Chinese portrait depicts a young woman and was painted using a reverse glass painting technique. Painting in reverse on the opposite side of a piece of glass meant the painter h...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood, Paint

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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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood, Paint

Chinese Lattice Window Panel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This early 20th century lattice window panel likely originated in a northern Chinese home with neutral and balanced interiors. The geometric lattice pattern is linear and open, and was designed to allow light and air into a room while maintaining privacy. Assembled by carefully joining long strips of carved wood, this lattice window has an even, squared pattern that reveals a large diamond formation. Crafted of pine wood, we love this vintage lattice...
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Chinese Qing Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Pine

Japanese Two Panel Screen Moon Rising Through Bamboo on Silver Leaf
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese two panel screen: Moon rising through bamboo on silver leaf, Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of the moon rising on the horizon with a garden stone in the foreground. Lic...
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Japanese Meiji Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Japanese Framed Silk Painting, Turtledoves and Peaches, Taisho Era, circa 1920
Located in Kyoto, JP
Nakamura Daizaburo Turtledoves in a Peach Tree Taisho period, circa 1920 Framed painting. Mineral pigments, ink and gofun on silk Signed: Daizaburo Dimensions (framed)...
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Japanese Taisho Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Silk

Wood Wall Panel from Indonesia, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
A vintage wood panel from Indonesia, circa 1920. Hand-carved teak wood, with its original blue color, naturally distressed by time and the elements....
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Indonesian Arts and Crafts Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Japanese Six Panel Screen Various Trees in a Garden Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
With training lines on some branches, typical in Japanese arboreal sculpting. Colorful mineral pigments on paper. Beautiful hand-printed back paper.
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Japanese Vintage Early 20th Century 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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Asian Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Japanese Six Panel Screen: Chrysanthemum Pavilion
Located in Hudson, NY
with applied gold and silver roof, light color and pigment on paper with gold flake and red frame.
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Japanese Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Four Panel Screen, Autumn Flowers
Located in Hudson, NY
Taisho period painting (1912-1926) of a fall landscape with wild grasses, red maple, and dahlias. Mineral pigments on gold with a silk brocade border and beautiful metal mounts.
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Japanese Taisho Vintage Early 20th Century Paintings and Screens

Materials

Wood, Paper, Silk

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