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Screens and Room Dividers For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: Early 20th Century
19th Century Italian screen, wall panel, oil on canvas
Located in Maidstone, GB
19th Century antique Italian screen, this would also look lovely as a wall panel. As a wall panel it is 118 inches long, as a screen it is approximately 86.5 inches long depending ho...
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19th Century Italian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
Jugendstil screen no.1057 by J&J Kohn
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Jugendstil screen no.1057 by J&J Kohn with new secession fabric.
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1910s Austrian Jugendstil Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Beech
Early 20th Century Chinese Lacquered Ebonized Six-Panel Decorative Screen
Located in Dallas, TX
Divide a room or decorate a living room wall with this elegant antique folding screen. Crafted in China circa 1920, the free standing screen stands on bracket feet dressed with brass...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Pair of Room dividers in (parchment leather ) and wood , France, 1920
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Each screen sheet measures 45 cm (17.71 inch).
Each screen has 3 sheets 135 long (53.13 inch)
Exhibited at Original antique show ( Miami beach ) and Palm beach "American Internationa...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Parchment Paper
Court Gold Italian Harlequin Panel Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Italian wooden folding screen from the 19th century is a true marvel of craftsmanship and artistry. Standing at 63" tall and spreading 66" wide when opened up, it features hand painted harlequin jester people who were known for entertaining royalty. This screen is a unique piece, one-of-a-kind with its own personality.
Crafted in the early 20th century, this court gold Italian harlequin...
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Early 20th Century Italian Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Art Nouveau Commedia Dell’Arte Painted Paravent/Screen Paris ca 1920
Located in Doha, QA
This spectacular Art Nouveau Era Paravent/Screen is a true eye catcher and one of a kind piece of art full of fantasy and eccentric imagination.
It has been designed and painted in ...
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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Linen, Wood, Mahogany
19th Century Screen with Grotesques Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Nineteenth century
Screen with grotesques
Measures: (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm
The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century.
The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. the first panel depicts the fable of The frogs ask for a king, the second panel instead represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the Hare and the tortoise, while the fourth The crow and the fox, while the last panel probably represents the episode of the Fox and the stork.
The screen owes its name to its singular and ancient origin; after the discovery of these decorations in 1480 in Nero's Domus Aurea, a palace that had been buried for centuries, under the pretext of imitatio antiquitatis, they were re-proposed in contemporary palaces. The palace of Nero was visited by many explorers, who descended into it and had the impression of being inside a cave, which is why, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, these particular decorations rediscovered there were called grotesque. The great success that the grotesques had is testified by Raphael's decorations in the Vatican...
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19th Century Italian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Asian Modernist / Chinese carved & hand painted two-panel screen , divider.
Located in Buffalo, NY
Asian Modernist / Chinese carved & hand painted two-panel screen , room divider.Signed by the artist,, Age approbate wear consistent with use and age.. Hand delivery avail to New Yo...
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1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Early 20th C. Floral Folding Screen
Located in Houston, TX
Early 20th century Floral 3 panel Folding Screen. Burnished gold color with trailing leaves and flowers. This piece also has d-rings on the back, giving you the option to mount it.
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Early 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paper
Chinese Qing Four Panel Lacquered Incised Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Rare unusual late 19th century/early 20th-century Chinese Qing four-panel coromandel screen. The front features dark red lacquer decorated with scholars objects and small landscape s...
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19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Japanese Edo Six Panel Table Screen After Maruyama Okyo
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic diminutive Japanese Edo period table top screen depicting a lively water landscape with flora and fauna. The screen is beautifully painted o...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
19th Century French Large Screen with Three Leaves in Hand Painted Canvas
Located in Sofia, BG
Lovely large French room divider or screen with three leaves in canvas hand painted in vivid colors with birds and foliage scrolls on blue base, after a pattern from a wall canvas pr...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
Antique Victorian Cameo Brass Peacock Fireplace Fan Folding Screen
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Victorian Cameo brass peacock fireplace fan folding screen.
Gorgeous French brass "peacock fan" full size fireplace screen. Lovely when th...
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1920s Victorian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Antique French Gilt Bronze Fire Place Screen 19th Century Cherub Louis XV Style
Located in Nierstein am Rhein, DE
Amazing 19th Century French antique gilt bronze free standing ormolu fire place screen in Louis XV Rococo Style with floral handle, flanking scrolled acanthus motif, highlighted with...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Upholstered Three Fold Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Highly imposing mid-19th Century French three-fold modesty screen or room divider.
Each panel is enclosed in molded gilt frames with short scrolled legs and ornately carved scrolled crests. Upholstered on one side with pink 'Regency stripe' fabric and with plain silk on the reverse.
Each with shaped glass tops which all have beveled edges.
Folds completely flat when not in use. (Sometimes referred to as Dressing Screens or Draft Screens).
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19th Century French Baroque Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Hand-Painted and Ebonized Pole Screens
Located in New York, NY
Pair of ebonized pole screens with fine floral painted finishes on tripod legs.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Bog Wood
Late 19th C. Ming Carved Ebonized and Giltwood Trifold Table Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
A Late 19th Century Ming Style Carved, Ebonized and Giltwood Trifold Table Screen in great condition.
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Late 19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
19th Century Pleated Silk Screen
Located in London, GB
Five fold screen with original apple green pleated silk and braid.
Mahogany frame.
French c.1810
Measures: height 118cm Each panel 45 cm wide
In origina...
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1810s French Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk, Mahogany
Large Heavy 19th Century Carved Chinoiserie 4 Fold Screen
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Large Heavy 19th century Carved chinoiserie 4 Fold Screen
This very impressive privacy screen has four large and profusely carved panels, the design is of very many dragons and se...
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19th Century Chinoiserie Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Teak
Gilt Mirrored Back Three-Panel Louis XVI Style Folding Screen Gilt Gold Finish
Located in Stamford, CT
Three panel Louis XVI style folding screen or room separator. Gilt gold finish having six small mirrors above finely carved panels. Reverse is upholster...
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Early 20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror
Arts & Crafts Copper Fire Screen by John Pearson
By John Pearson
Located in Petworth, GB
Arts & Crafts magnificent large copper fire screen
Depicting galleon at sea
Maker /Designer John Pearson (1859-1930)
Circa 1905
John Pearson was an Arts and Crafts designer maker...
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Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Copper
Fine pair of Regency tapestry fire screens
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Fine pair of Regency palisander fire screens circa 1820.
Fine piece of early 19th century design. Screens hold up with friction and are adjustable. Striking palisander with good co...
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Palisander
19th Century English Embossed Leather Wallpaper Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic 19th century arts and crafts four-panel painted and embossed leather style wallpaper screen. The screen features thick embossed panels decorated with scrolling vines having...
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19th Century English Arts and Crafts Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Hand Painted Antique Large Screen
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
M/781 - Interesting large hand painted on wood high screen : from France, mid '800.
It can be the background of an entire wall: an imaginary garden with flowers' triumph; on the o...
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Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paint
19th Century Embossed Leather Four Fold Screen
Located in Wilson, NC
19th century embossed leather four fold screen, with a myriad of multi-color floral and foliate designs.
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel
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 Chinese Export Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Soapstone
Antique Privacy Screen, English, Handpainted, 3 Panel Room Divider, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique privacy screen. An English, handpainted pine 3 panel room divider in Japanese taste, dating to the Victorian period and later...
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Late 19th Century British Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
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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Early 20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Chinese Lattice Wall Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant wall lattice once fit inside tracks in the floor and ceiling for easy removal. Though visually simple, close inspection reveals the lattice t...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Elm
19th Century Lacquered Chinoiserie Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Monumental 19th Century lacquered screen with a Chinoiserie design throughout.
This fantastic screen features ten folding panels which are decorated on both...
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19th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lacquer
Stained Glass Panels, Pair
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair of antique stained glass panels. Note the wear and tear.
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Early 20th Century Medieval Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Stained Glass, Wood
19th Century French Grand Tour Style Eight Panel Painted Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic monumental late 19th century French painted oil on canvas folding eight-panel screen. The large screen measures over 14 feet long and features neoclassical and grand tour t...
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19th Century French Grand Tour Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
1920s Italian Room Divider/Screen
Located in London, GB
A fine carved early 20th century Italian hardwood room divider. The four panel screen features distinctly carved leaves in distressed soft green paint.
Dimensions: W:200cm H: 183cm ...
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1920s Italian Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Stylized Hand Painted Art Deco Screen / Divider Signed Marian B. Jeffries C.1928
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stylized hand painted Art Deco screen / divider signed Marian B. Jeffries c.1928. Amazing colors. Charming motif. Consisting of three oak framed panels, cente...
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1920s American Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Masonite
French Decorative Foliage Painted Three Panel Arched Leather Screen, Circa 1840
Located in Hollywood, SC
French decorative foliage painted hinged three panel arched leather screen with brass tack trimming, and resting on rectangular block feet. Mid 19th century.
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1840s French Louis Philippe Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
19th Century Carved Oak Black Forest Fire Screen
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
19th century Carved oak black forest fire screen, circa 1880.
Beautifully carved example of black forest woodwork. Typical foliage and scrolling carved branches surmounted by a ca...
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Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Oak
French Stylized Art Deco Fireplace Screen, French Riviera Acquisition
Located in Miami, FL
French Stylized Art Deco fireplace screen, French Riviera acquisition
Offered for sale is a French Art Deco highly stylized fireplace screen recently acquired from a client who pu...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
French Faux Bamboo Giltwood Fireplace Screen C1900
Located in Trensacq, FR
Charming faux bamboo giltwood fire screen frame C1900 France. Great decorative piece, nicely distressed with good patina. Ready to upholster to suit your interior - please ask for de...
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Early 1900s French Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Giltwood
A Set Of 4 Screens / Room Dividers. c 1860 - 1880
Located in Kastrup, DK
A set of 4 screens, made in elm wood. Lacquer decorated in polychrome.
Panels decorated with vases, flowers, etc.
Former screen wall from house in Shanxi pro...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Elm
19th Century French Folding Screen with Original Hand-Painted Outdoor Scene
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French painted folding screen room divider from the 19th century. This antique accordion style folding screen from France features four tall rectan...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Arts and Crafts Marquetry Fire Screen
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Marquetry Fire Screen
This piece hails from the 1920s it is probably from the Rowley Gallery of Kensington, it made in an Oak frame and has an inlaid marquetry pan...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Early 19th Century Chinese Coromandel Lacquer Screen
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive early 19th Century Chinese Coromandel lacquer eight fold screen, depicting courtiers and attendants in pagoda buildings and gardens. set in a boarder of flower pots...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lacquer
Italian Folding Screen
Located in Houston, TX
This six-panel screen borrows from the Roman practice as an homage to the great designers that came before. Ancient roman courtyard houses typically had architectural elements crown ...
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Early 20th Century Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paper
An exquisite early 19th Century hand painted four-fold leather room divider.
Located in Alton, GB
An exquisite early 19th Century continental (possibly of Italian origins) circa 1820 four-fold leather room divider with an elegant fruit and floral pattern with birds perched. Hand ...
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Early 19th Century French Victorian Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Antique & Stunning 19th Century Gilt Bronze Firescreen with Mint Wire Mesh 1880s
Located in Lisse, NL
This Louis 15th Style bronze fire screen has amazing details and it is both marked and numbered.
If this beautifully handcrafted, scrolling 19th century firescreen...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze, Metal, Wire
Italian Neoclassical 3 Panel Hand Painted Room Divider Screen
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Three panel hand painted room dressing screen divider, Italy.
A 1800s Italian Neoclassical 3 panel floor screen, room divider. Hand painted on ...
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Late 19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
English Inlaid Four Paneled Folding Screen
Located in Wilson, NC
English inlaid four paneled folding screen made of mahogany inlaid with satinwood. It has walnut bandings bordered by boxwood and ebony line...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass, Boxwood, Ebony, Mahogany, Satinwood, Walnut, Wood
19th Century Wooden Oriental Divider with Hand Painted Paper Decorations
Located in Marbella, ES
19th century Wooden Oriental Divider with Hand Painted Paper Decorations.
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19th Century Japanese Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paper
Art Nouveau Vanity Folding Mirror Screen with Marquetry, 1901
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Exceptional dressing / vanity polyptych folding screen (5 panels).
Mahogany structure with inlays / marquetry of different essences with floral motifs.
Copper handles, hinges and...
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Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Copper
Jugendstil Screen / Room Divider, Painted Glass, Art Nouveau, Early 1900s
Located in Odense, DK
Rare antique jugendstil screen / room divider in glass & metal. This fine European folding screen will complementary many modern interior style...
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Early 20th Century Scandinavian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Carved and Inlaid Shibayama Folding Screen, Japan, Meiji Era, circa 1890
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Folding creen with 2 panels in carved, inlaid and lacquered wood.
The upper and lower parts are carved with birds and foliage / leaves.
The central panels are inlaid on the front...
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1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Carved Walnut Barley Twist and Cane Firescreen
Located in Wilson, NC
Carved walnut barley twist and cane firescreen, featuring arabesques, rosettes, and foliate carved in high relief, central walnut veneer oval medallion s...
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Early 1900s English Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Cane, Walnut
Art Deco Firescreen French Ironwork Fer Forge
By Edgar Brandt
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco Firescreen French Ironwork Fer Forge. Stunning panel with repetitive abstract balloon design. Original from the 1920s era. It is made with...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Iron
Antique French Napoleon III Gilt Fireplace Screen with Newly Upholstered Panels
Located in Toronto, ON
A beautiful antique French Napoleon III large fireplace screen with ornate hand carved wood and gold gilding. Newly reupholstered with damask fa...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Damask
Tiffany Studios Favrile Glass & Bronze Fireplace Screen in the Pine Needle Form
Located in Hudson, NY
Tiffany Studios, New York, (1878-1930). This large Tiffany Studios favrile glass & bronze four panel folding screen in the pine needle pattern has been gallery-quality mounted in a black metal, wall mountable light box. No apparent makers mark to the screen but having numbers to sides of panels. Note: Alastair Duncan, Tiffany Lamps and Metalware...
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Early 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
20th Century French Walnut Hand Carved Fireplace Screen with Silk Upholstery
Located in Sofia, BG
20th Century large hand carved wooden fire-screen upholstered in red silk fabric in front and light beige silk at the back. The frame has a centre decorati...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk, Walnut
20th Century French Two Panel Screen
Located in Nashville, TN
Two panel folding screen with oil paintings depicting mythological male figures. Back of screen is upholstered in silk damask. Brass nailhead trim. Fabric hinges.
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Early 20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk, Damask
Japanese Two-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
Edo Pariod Japanese two-panel screen depicting cranes on a willow branch.
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19th Century Japanese Antique Screens and Room Dividers
Antique and Vintage Screens and Room Dividers
Whether they are implemented as decorative accents or makeshift partitions to ensure privacy, antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers easily introduce sophistication and depth to any space in your home.
The earliest examples of folding screens are said to have originated in China and go back at least as far as the Han dynasty. Screens of the era were heavy structures made of wood and had hinges of cloth or leather. They were adorned with elaborate landscape paintings that were typically created on silk or paper canvases and applied directly to the screen’s panels afterward. Just as they had been in the 20th century and today, the folding screens then were recognized for both their practical and purely decorative properties.
Japanese room-divider screens were also decorated with paintings but constructed to be lightweight and mobile. They took on considerable event-based importance when the structures gained popularity in the East Asian country, as the folding screens were used in performing arts such as concerts, tea ceremonies and more. Later, artists elsewhere warmed to folding screens and sought to create their own.
In European countries such as France, where they were known as paravent, folding screens began to materialize in apartments in Paris, gaining favor with the likes of pioneering couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who is said to have accrued more than 30 and used them as a precursor to what we now know as wallpaper.
On 1stDibs, find a wide range of antique and vintage folding screens and room dividers, which, given their history, may do a better job of bringing people and cultures together in your home than sectioning off a space. Search by material to find options in metal, fabric or wood, or browse by style for mid-century modern designs and examples from the Art Deco era.
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