Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
CHINESE EXPORT STYLE
Expanded trade between Europe and East Asia, starting in the 16th century, led to a booming market for exported goods, particularly furniture. This was bolstered by the establishment of the Dutch and English East India Companies at the beginning of the 17th century. From folding screens and chairs to lacquer tables and silver, Chinese Export furniture was in demand and regularly copied and imitated, leading to styles like chinoiserie and Chinese Chippendale.
The expansion of exporting that had strengthened the arts during the Ming dynasty continued into the Qing dynasty era — Chinese designers made many furniture pieces specifically for export, resulting in distinctive designs that mixed traditional techniques with forms appealing to foreign buyers. For instance, cabinetmakers in Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) were prolific in crafting hardwood furniture for export in European styles that involved the expert joinery techniques of Chinese furniture. Designs for Chinese Export porcelain, cabinets, decorative objects and other furniture were often more ornately adorned than they would be for a local audience, such as with mother-of-pearl overlays or surfaces featuring lavish pictorial scenes or gold on black motifs. Some were even commissioned by wealthy European families to be adorned with their coat of arms.
Because lacquer furniture was especially prized, and the resin used to create it was difficult to import as it would harden during the long voyage, artisans in China and Japan exported numerous lacquer pieces. Long before lacquer made its way to Japan, the Chinese treated the material differently. They used it to create smooth, glossy surfaces, but also for carving, an art that began in the 12th century and is exclusively Chinese. These pieces are called cinnabar lacquer after the powdered mercury sulfide (cinnabar) employed to produce their characteristic red hue. A popular form for export was a compact cabinet with drawers, usually displayed on a small table. Undecorated furniture built in Europe was also shipped to China to be lacquered. The international exchange of design would influence furniture into the 19th century and later, informing styles such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau.
Find a collection of antique Chinese Export tables, beds, cupboards, table lamps and more furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Chinese Export
Mid Century Chinese Silk Paintings of Birds by Signed Artists in Gilt Frames
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Elegant Chinese Export signed Silk paintings from the mid-century era. Excellent condition in gilt frames. Identical birds in differing hue and signature likely painted by different ...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Screen Pearlescent Landscape
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Captivating Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring an idyllic seascape with beauties. The background is comprised of pearlescent crystal sand that shines like glitter ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Antique Tibetan Hand Painted Buddhist Thangka
Located in Pomona, CA
Very beautiful and colorful Antique Tibetan Buddhist Thangka. It is all hand painted with Tibetan natural mineral painting material which can last for...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric
Chinese Gilt Coromandel Eight-Panel Screen Immortals Sky Gods
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing Chinese export eight-panel lacquered coromandel screen depicting a heavenly scene of immortals and sky gods floating in ruyi clouds. The fascin...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Four-Panel Coromandel Vintage Floor Screen with Flying Cranes
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese Export four-panel Coromandel lacquer folding screen featuring an idyllic pond landscape with five red crowned cranes flying over a pound with lucious vegetation. Embarking upon a poetic journey through timeless Chinese artistry, this vintage Chinese Export Coromandel...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Circa 1760 Chinese Qianlong Period Coromandel 10-Panel Lacquer Decorated Screen
Located in Atlanta, GA
An impressive ten panel screen with carved and lacquered panels depicting court life on the front and various birds on the back. Inscribed on two panels as a gift from Chen Guang...
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18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Export Reverse Glass Painting of Warriors in Landscape, circa 1825
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A fine circa 1825 Chinese Export polychrome reverse glass painting of a warrior group with horse and 'Budai' in a river landscape housed in original 'Chinese Chippendale' parcel-gilt...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Asian Two Panel Table Screen Flowering Prunu with Songbird
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful Asian two panel byobu screen featuring a blossoming prunus tree with a songbird perched on its branch. Vibrant ink and color pigments applied to a golden silk ground. The pa...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Reticulated & Hinged Standing Frame
Located in New York, NY
Chinese rosewood reticulated and hinged standing frame, the whole with floral decoration, the glass mounted frame fully turnable, with two volute support feet similarly carved.
Deal...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Rosewood
Chinese Export Watercolor Exotic Bird Paintings on Paper
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade watercolor paintings of exotic birds on branches are in watercolor and gouache on Chinese paper.
One picture depicts a pigeon perched on a tree branch with a landscape background. Chinese calligraphy can be seen in the top right corner. The second picture depicts two courting birds in shades of brown, both perched on a branch, also in a landscape background.
Both paintings framed with a green silk mat and contemporary gilt and dark wood frame.
Reference: Chinese Export...
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Early 18th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Hollywood Regency Lacquered Coromandel Screen with Banana Leaves
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export hollywood regency period four panel coromandel screen featuring a lush green landscape with exotic birds, vines, and banana leaves. Each panel measures 16 inc...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Dream of the Red Chamber
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Faded Chinese export narrative tale coromandel screen with four lacquered panels. The scene is from the 18th century novel by Cao Xuegin. The screen depicts beauties in the grand vie...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Four Panel Gilt Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Extraordinary Chinese export four-panel coromandel screen featuring a pagoda pavilion landscape with a dramatic gold leaf background. The black lacquered panels are incised with vibr...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Chinese Export Reverse Glass Portrait Painting of an Opium Maiden, circa 1880
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A wonderful and extremely rare last quarter 19th century Chinese export for the Anglo-Indian market reverse glass portrait painting of an opium-smoking maiden or young lady painted i...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Giltwood, Paint
Chinese Export Six Panel Folding Screen Cranes on Gold Leaf
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Opulent Chinese export six-panel lacquered screen featuring nine white cranes over a gilt gold leaf background. The idyllic landscape screen has gracefully waving fronds with delicat...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinese Chinoiserie Black Lacquered and Gold Coromandel 6 Panel Screen
Located in West Hartford, CT
Spectacular Chinese black lacquered 6 panel folding screen incised with gold gilt and white paint featuring Chinese village scenery. Feet...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Lovely Pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portrait Hand Painted Glass Paintings
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portraits w...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Sublime Pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portrait Hand Painted Glass Paintings
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this Sublime pair of Antique Chinese Ancestral Portraits ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Six Panel Asian Screen
Located in Stamford, CT
A six panel Asian floor screen with silver leaf background depicting a view above rooftops, with flying cranes and Chinese character marks.
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Chinese Reverse Painting on Glass Empress Dowager Cixi 1st Half of 20th Century
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A CHINESE REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS
OF Empress Dowager Cixi
1st Half of 20th Century.
Fine painting on glass of
Empress Cixi seating on a throne
in original moulded wood frame.
Ima...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Chinese Export Coromandel Screen Soapstone Landscape with Cranes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export six-panel coromandel lacquered folding screen featuring a carved soapstone floral landscape with cranes. Each panel is 16 inches wide and embellished with a...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Chinese Antique Gold Leaf Koi Fish Floor Screen
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Antique Gold Leaf Koi Fish Floor Screen and Room Divider from the mid 20th century with lotus flowers and Koi fishes. Step into an ethereal realm with this resplendent mid-20th century Chinese Export Coromandel...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Pair of 19' century Chinese Reverse-Painted Mirror Pictures
Located in Rome, IT
A pair of Chinese reverse glass painting representing women and a child in a garden pavillion. Original "Chinese Chippendale" framing.
China for expo...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Chinese Export Eight Panel Coromandel Screen Gilt Pavilion
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Imposing Chinese export eight panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring an idyllic pavilion over a dramatic gilt background. The panels are incised with intricate details and vibra...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Zhao Chengxiang Floral Still Life Ink on Paper
Located in New York, NY
Zhao Chengxiang (Chinese, b. 1953) ink painting on paper scroll depicting a flower still life scene with cat, signed.
Note: Zhao Chengxiang is a native of the Shantou, Guangdong Prov...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Pair of Fine Chinese Export Reverse Paintings on Glass, Circa 1830
Located in Dallas, TX
a pair of 19th century Chinese Export reverse glass paintings depicting scenes of nobles at leisure in a palace that is open to beautiful gardens, original frame, inspired by English...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Art Glass, Paint
Chinese Export Six Panel Hardstone Lacquer Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Chinese export intricately carved lacquered screen featuring scholars objects in boldly colored stones. The reverse side has a delicate gilt decoration over a black ground ....
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
Silk 1940s Chinese Export Needlepoint with Nightingale on Branch with Blooms
Located in Lomita, CA
This is a silk Asian needlepoint (Gilt Bamboo-style frame) bird on a branch with flow that measures 38 x 25 x 2.5 inches.It is stunning in pastel colo...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Bamboo
FINE & COLLECTABLE ANTiQUE CHINESE EXPORT SOAPSTONE FOLDING SCREEN ROOM DIVIDER
Located in GB
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this extremely well made and highly collectable Chinese Export circa 1920’s Soapstone room divider folding s...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
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 Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Gilt Chinese Hand Painted Folded Fan
Located in Lomita, CA
This hand painted gilt monumental folded Chinese Export fan is worth collecting. This is a vintage piece from the 1960s most likely. The fan is rea...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo, Paper
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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Early 20th Century Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood
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 Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Six Panel Gilt Lacquered Folding Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Gorgeous Chinese export six-panel lacquered folding screen featuring idyllic gilt landscape scenes. Each panel is decorated with a painted scene...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Rare & Collectable Antique Chinese Export Soapstone Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely well made and highly collectable Chinese Export circa 1920’s Soapstone room divider folding screen depicting Geisha Girls
Please...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone
Chinese Export Gilt Coromandel Screen Manchurian Cranes
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic Chinese export four-panel lacquered coromandel screen featuring an idyllic pond landscape with eight red crowned cranes or Manchurian cranes...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf, Brass
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 Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Painting of Men in Armory in Gilt Burl Frame, from Laos or Thailand
Located in Lomita, CA
The setting, the detail, and the sense of conflict and mystery make this painting compelling. There is a contrast throughout the painting of softness and a hard edge. The trees and t...
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Late 19th Century Southeast Asian Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Burl
Chinese Decorative Wall Plate of Spring
Located in Milano, IT
Round plate made of bronze and cloisonné enamel designed in China in the 20th century.
This plate is made of bronze and cloisonné enamel, a goldsmith technique originally applied to...
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Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Export Six Panel Coromandel Screen Bamboo Plum Blossom
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming Chinese export lacquered coromandel screen featuring a colorful bamboo and plum blossom water landscape with flora and fauna. The six-panel screen has thick layers of lacquer incised and painted with natural pigments in pastel style colors. The opposite side features species of trees and bamboo in a delicate gilt rendering. The screen is supported by stepped legs...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
20th Century Chinese Coromandel Black Gilt Eight-Panel Screen Immortals Sky Gods
Located in Farmington Hills, MI
We are very pleased to offer a monumental 8ft, eight panel room divider, circa the 20th century. This beautiful double-sided hardwood screen showcases a rich, black lacquer finish an...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Hardwood, Lacquer
Chinese Export Eight-Panel Lacquered Coromandel Screen
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Beautifully hand painted and decorated grand scale Chinese export Eight-panel Coromandel screen featuring different hand painted Chinese scene on each side. One side depicting an hand painted and parcel gilded court scenes. The reverse features a Chinese landscape scene. The screen measures 96 inches...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Hand-Painted Golden Chinese Folding Screen, 1900
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
Low chinese folding screen (bayou). All hand painted. Professionaly.
Can also be hanged on the wall as a painting.
Hand-painted on gold leaf...
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Early 1900s Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
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 are embellished with vivid color...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Pair of Vintage Asian 3 Panel Screens with Intricate Hand Painted Detail
Located in Locust Valley, NY
Super Chic pair of vintage Asian 3 Panel black lacquered screens with beautiful carved intricate detail and hand painted. Each side is displayin...
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Set of Twelve Chinese Gouache Paintings in Bamboo Frames
Located in Bradenton, FL
Set of twelve early 20th century Chinese Gouache paintings depicting everyday life of various craftsmen. Examples are a barber, food vendors, ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Pair of Chinese Hand Carved Jade and Wood Table Screens
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a 19th century pair of Chinese hand carved oval jade and hard stone table screens with wood stands. They depict a semitransparent large egg sh...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Jade
19th Century Chinese Gilt Inkwash Painted Screen
Located in Lomita, CA
This is a singular piece, a framed vintage Chinese gilt and inkwash miniature six-fold paper screen, that was possibly a salesman's sample, and it is beautiful.
This is from the la...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Giltwood
Chinese Painting on Scroll Paper, China 19th Century, Birds and Nature Decor
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Chinese painting on paper, which is unrolled once hung on the wall. It is a painting that depicts birds in nature, in the style of the 18th c...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Early 20th C Chinese Linhai Painted Panel in Green Tones
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1900 Linhai wood panel with hand painted scene in green and fuchsia tones of a flowering tree with a bird. Painted black scrolled border and red edge. Decorative brass hanger at the top.
Panel measures 38.5” high without brass hanging hardware.
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Chinese Export Trade Painting Depicting ‘the Tea Shop', Chinoiserie Chique
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A refined Chinese export painting depicting ‘The Tea shop’
Canton, early 19th century
Ink and watercolour on silk, H. 63.5 x W. 52.3 cm
Framed in giltwood frame.
?The paintin...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Asian Framed Embroidery with Landscape, Early 20th Century
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Beautiful handmade silk embroidery, framed under glass.
We see a landscape where a lake or a navigable river is represented, bordered by houses, forests and mountains.
Asia, old In...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Glass, Wood
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 Paintings and Screens
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
20th Century Chinese Export Six Panel Gold Leaf Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Late Qing, early republic period style Chinese export six-panel coromandel screen featuring a pavillion with figures engaged in leisurely activities on a dramatic gilt gold leaf back...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, 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 Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Set of Four Framed Chinese Silk Flower and Bird Paintings
Located in Atlanta, GA
A set of four Chinese silk paintings, beautifully presented in matching gilt and burl wood frames with brocade borders. The subject of this lovely ...
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20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood
Pair of Signed Antique Chinese Watercolour Silk Paintings of Geisha Girl Flowers
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of antique circa 1920’s Chinese Export hand painted on silk paintings depicting a Geisha girl and a floral scene with butterfly.
...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
19th Century Asian Hand Carved Screen with Mountains, Trees and Sea Gulls
Located in Lomita, CA
The delicate open hand-carving on this screen is distinctive. This is a late 19th, early 20th century Chinese divider screen made from hand-carv...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export paintings and screens for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Chinese Export paintings and screens for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage paintings and screens created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include asian art and furniture, wall decorations, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Chinese Export paintings and screens made in a specific country, there are Asia, China, and East Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original paintings and screens, popular names associated with this style include and Sunqua. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for paintings and screens differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $281 and tops out at $96,000 while the average work can sell for $4,050.
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