Italian Screens and Room Dividers

A very fine, spectacular antique Italian oil on canvas screen/room divider, circa 1860. The four fold screen is very finely painted with an Italian fishing/harbor scene, the base is ...

Five-panel jointed screen; made of poplar entirely lacquered in black, it is decorated with Chinoise-like painted motifs: dragons, monkeys, birds, and reserves depicting scenes of Ch...

A lovely 19th century Italian neoclassical oil on leather folding screen room divider. Born in Italy, circa 1860, featuring patinated brass hinged three panel wooden frame wrapped in leather canvas hand painted with fantastical classical design depicting grotesque arabesque motif including putti cherub medzallions, floral wreaths, trailing foliage and ribbons on a pale olive green ground, accented by bronze stud tack trim sides and shaped top. Dimensions: (approx) 73" High, 66.5" Wide, 1" Deep Each panel: 22.25 Wide Folded closed: 3" Deep Detailed Condition Report: In overall great antique condition. Beautifully aged distressed patina. Wear consistent with age and use, retaining original antique character...

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...

Antique 19th century Italian Floral Painted 3 panel folding floor screen / room divider. The screen has been expertly painted by an Italian sch...

Three panel hand painted room dressing screen divider, Italy. A 1800s Italian Neoclassical 3 panel floor screen, room divider. Hand painted on ...

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...

Italian antique 19th Century walnut balustrade with hand carved angels faces on wings. This piece was probably the final portion of a large wall balu...

Four screen rectangular paravent. The panels are painted on wood . The upper part is in the shape of a gendarme’s hat. Each panel is richly painted with floral decor, galantes, cost...

Art Nouveau fire screen in black enamelled steel with mother-of-pearl decoration. Enamelled cast iron legs. Measures cm: H 121, W 62, D 23.

19th century hand painted fire screen. Oil paint on board. Flowers and lakescape on each side.

A pair of early 19th century Italian doors within their original carved wood casing. This fabulous piece consists of two antique Italian doors wi...

This one-of-a-kind museum quality Italian Empire Period (early 19th Century) room divider folding screen is made up of six rectangular solid wood panels, each richly painted and lacq...