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Period: 20th Century
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...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Japanese antique 2 wood panel folding room divider, Byobu, folding screen
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Wooden room divider, partition, made with a pair of antique window shutters used at Kominka (old traditional style house) in Ibaraki pref., Jap...
Category
Japanese Primitive Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Cedar
Italian Four Panel Flowers and Birds Room Divider/Screen
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Italian four panel screen/room divider.
Folder size 72x 16x 5"
Category
Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood, Paint
Chinese Six Panel Inlaid Folding Screen of Courtyards & Cavalry, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This magnificent six-panel Chinese folding screen depicts a lively battle scene with gilt brushwork and fine inlay of soapstone, agate, jade, jasper, mother-of-pearl and bone. The sc...
Category
Chinese Qing 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Japanese antique Yoshino Cedar 2-panel folding room divider Byobu folding screen
Located in 常陸大宮市, JP
Wooden room divider, partition, made with a pair of antique window shutters used at Kominka (old traditional style house) in Nara pref., Japan. It's new ...
Category
Japanese Primitive Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Cedar
Neoclassical Style Lacquered Five Panel Screen Fragment
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Asian five panel screen fragment of a larger painted screen. The screen features a lacquered canvas over a wood frame depicting neoclassical style column architecture with f...
Category
Chinese Neoclassical 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Wood
A Decorative Screen Ca '1980's In Art Deco Style
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A very interesting Art Deco style screen-city skyline, in black/gold lacquer, ca' 1980's. Folds flat-each of the four panels is 18"w, 72"h, 1.25" thick. Brass capped feet, back of th...
Category
Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
White Lacquer Four-Panel Screen with Hand-Painted Cranes and Foliage
Located in Yonkers, NY
This four-panel lacquered screen transforms a space with its exquisite hand-painted composition of cranes and lush botanicals. The elegant white lacquer serves as a serene backdrop f...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Export Four Panel Lacquered Coromandel Dressing Screen Room Divider
Located in Doylestown, PA
Chinese export smaller scale four-panel lacquered dressing screen room divider with hand-painted decoration on both sides.
One side depicts a charming continuous pavilion scene with...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Sculptural Three-Panel Midcentury Bamboo Screen Room Divider
Located in Den Haag, NL
Sculptural three-panel midcentury bamboo screen room divider.
Category
European Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
Black Lacquer Screen with Cranes and Gold Leaf, Four-Panel Room Divider
Located in Yonkers, NY
A striking display of artistry, this Chinese lacquered folding screen showcases a mesmerizing composition of red-crowned cranes in flight against a golden backdrop. The four-panel construction features a dynamic arrangement of cranes, their detailed plumage accentuated by subtly raised lacquer outlines, lending a dimensional quality to the artwork. The luminous gold ground, possibly applied with gold leaf or gilded foil, creates a radiant contrast to the deep black lacquer frame. Delicate hand-painted floral motifs soften the edges, introducing a refined decorative element.
On the reverse, an equally elegant painted landscape unfolds, featuring songbirds perched among flowering branches and lotus blossoms. This dual-sided design enhances versatility, allowing the screen to function as both a decorative statement piece and a functional room divider.
Whether placed as a dramatic backdrop in a dining room, used as an ornate headboard...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Room Divider by L. Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Żory, PL
This room divider was designed by Ludvik Volák for Dřevopodnik Holešov in the 1960s.
Made of bent, veneered plywood. The height is adjustable from 259 to 268cm.
Category
Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
French Art Deco tambour screen room-divider
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Oakland, CA
French Art Deco tambour room divider / folding screen crafted of heart pine, can be coiled and shaped into multiple positions to fit the space as needed. Possibly Baumann et Fils, Me...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Neoclassical Faux Marble 3-Panel Screen, 18 Topographical Views of Italy
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Neoclassical Vedute Faux Marble 3-Panel Screen, 18 Topographical Views of Italy, Monumental Scale, by Maitland-Smith
A striking and monumental three-panel folding screen by Maitlan...
Category
Neoclassical 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Victorian Style Needlepoint Flower & Tree Tapestry Upholstered Four Panel Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
A Victorian Style Needlepoint Flowers & Trees Tapestry Upholstered Four Panel Screen. Measures 78" in width, 68" in height. Good antique condition.
Category
Unknown Victorian 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Tapestry, Hardwood
Teak Detailed Carved Three Panel Room Screen
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-987 Detailed carved teak room divider screen.
Category
Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood
Unique Art Nouveau Screen Handcarved Leather & Oakwood, Denmark, 1910s
Located in Odense, DK
Amazing unique screen or room divider made in Denmark in the early 20th century. The screen is made from hand carved leather with medieval courtly motif typical for the late romantic...
Category
Danish Art Nouveau Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Leather, Oak
Mid-Century Japanese 4-Panel Folding Room Divider/Separè 1940s
Located in Palermo, IT
Mid-Century Japanese 4-panel folding room divider 1940s
Purchased from a Sicilian merchant.
Good condition, small signs of aging.
Measurements when closed: Width 50 cm, height 184 cm...
Category
Japanese Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Rare Four Panel “Coromandel Screen” by Karl Springer
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An Incredible 1970 rare four panel “Coromandel” Screen by Karl Springer.
The front design is hand carved and painted with black and coral...
Category
American Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Late 20th Century Mario Lopez Torres Elephant Palm Tree Three Panel Screen
Located in North Fort Myers, FL
Exquisite Mario Lopez Torres Elephant Palm Tree three panel screen divider and or Wall hanging in amazing used condition.
Free standing three panel screen in an intricate handmade d...
Category
Mexican Bohemian 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Decorative Wrought Iron, Gilt Folding Screen, Italy, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A beautiful wrought iron gilded decorative folding screen, room-divider made of 3 panels each 51 cm width/height 172 cm, made with craftsmanship, a decorative pearl in an Antique as ...
Category
Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wrought Iron
20th Century Carved Multi-Wood Marquetry Four-Panel Palatial Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
An impressive 20th Century hand Carved Multi Hardwood Marquetry Four-Panel Palatial Floor Screen. This original piece of art displays class and finesse in the making of pierced hand ...
Category
Unknown Other 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Satinwood, Walnut, Hardwood, Rosewood
Six-Panel Double Sided Coromandel Asian Screen on Stand
Located in Germantown, MD
Six-panel double sided Coromandel Asian Screen on stand. Each panel seats in a removable custom wood stand / shoe. Brownish gold color on one side and nature on the other. The subje...
Category
Hong Kong Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Pine Wood Room Divider by S.N.S.A. , France 1930s.
Located in The Hague, NL
Large 1920s Tambour screen by the French manufacturer S.N.S.A. Made in stained pitchpine.
Its flexible structure allows it to stand freely and shape curves, perfect for a dressing ro...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Monumental 10-Panel Coromandel Black Lacquer Folding Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Monumental 10-panel 10 foot tall coromandel black lacquered folding screen. One side depicting an elaborate bird landscape with a golden pheas...
Category
Hong Kong Chinoiserie 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Four panel silk Asian signed screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Four panel silk Asian signed screen with hand-painted egrets
72 x 36
Category
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silk
Korean Asian Large Long Life Byobu Byeongpung Shipjangsaengdo Ten Panel Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous, monumental, exceptionally large Korean ten-panel Sipjangsaengdo Byobu folding screen depicting the ten symbols of longevity—sun, mountain, water, rock, cloud,...
Category
Korean 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Paint, Paper
Chinoiserie Folding Screen or Room Divider
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
China, 1940s-1960s
Folding screen or room divider in black lacquer with hand painted decoration. Chic and functional chinoiserie piece. Each side of the screen has a different design...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Paint
Screen By Jansen ca' 1940's
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Elegant painted screen by Maison Jansen, made in Argentina ca' 1940's in neoclassical style. Each panel is approx. 18.5"wide and 78.75" high. When extended the screen is approx. 5 an...
Category
Argentine Neoclassical Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Unique Paravent- Lamp, Illuminated room divider from 1988 by Elsa Prochazka
By Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
Movable Room- divider with many tiny lamps outside.[nbsp]This piece of art is a unique piece[nbsp]designed by Elsa Prohazka and manufactured by WOKA LAMPS VIENNA[nbsp]for the Exhibition "WIEN MOEBEL" IN 1989, at the Vienna Secession Building. Several artists designed furniture and several manufacturer executed unique pieces of arts. The designers were Luigi Blau...
Category
Austrian Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel
Italian Neoclassical Style Painted Four Panel Folding Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic hand painted Italian four-panel folding floor screen made in the neoclassical taste. Each panel has two gracefully arched windows with parcel gilt borders over a black groun...
Category
Italian Neoclassical 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider
Circa 1930. We offer this rare and beautiful Antique Mexican Hand painted Olinalá Screen Divider made in Olinalá Mexico.
About Ol...
Category
Mexican Folk Art Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Alvar Aalto, Wooden Room Divider, Screen 100 in Pine, Artek 1960s
Located in Helsinki, FI
The 100 slatted wall / room divider by Alvar Aalto is a dynamic interior element assembled from narrow vertical pine slats and can be rolled up and opened as a straight or in numerou...
Category
Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Hollywood Regency Elephant & Palm Folding Screen or Room Divider
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wonderfully intricate Hollywood Regency Style brass tone elephant & palm tree motif 3 panel folding screen. This screen will make a great room divider...
Category
Indian Hollywood Regency 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Walnut Three Panel Room Divider Screen
Located in Wichita, KS
Beautiful Mid - Century Modern walnut three panel hand crafted screen or room divider. Each piece is hand assembled into an intricate grid and the screen has a very impressive pres...
Category
Unknown Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
Modern Vintage Abstract Metal Wire Three Panel Screen or Room Divider
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Very cool modern three-panel room divider. This sturdy and well made screen is made of metal wire that's arranged in an intricate and lacy abstract design. A beautiful way to create a room division. Each panel is 72.5 inches high by 24 inches wide...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
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...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
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...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Japanese 6 Panel Gold Screen With Cranes
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Exceptional Vintage Japanese wall 6 panel acreen gold with cranes in a landscape. Made in 3 d relief dimensions style. Great condition.
Category
Japanese Japonisme Antique 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
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...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Black and Gold Lacquered Eight-Panel Screen with Monks and Children Scene
Located in Yonkers, NY
This striking eight-panel black and gold Chinese screen showcases a captivating narrative of monks and children set against a dramatic landscape, b...
Category
Chinese 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Wall Unit by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov Mahogany
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Vienna, AT
Flower (dividing) wall made of the bent beech and mahogany plywood and features geometric patterns. In an excellent restored condition.
Designed in the early 1960s by Ludvik Volak a...
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Beech, Bentwood
Large Antique Coromandel or Kuancai Lacquer Screen
Located in Richmond, London
A superbly decorative six-panel lacquered 'Coromandel' screen, exquisitely carved and hand-painted with oriental figures, flowers and exotic beasts on a dark brown background, in the traditional 17th century manner.
Late 19th – early 20th century.
Why we like it
We like its impressive proportions which make it perfect for a feature wall, and the exquisite quality of decoration. The subtlety of colours lends a 'soft' look to the piece. The central motif depicts a scene set in the gardens of a Han dynasty palace, while the outer borders are decorated with the “one hundred antiques” motif interspersed with floral arrangements. In this regard, the present screen not only conveys auspicious meanings but also demonstrate the owner’s fine scholarly taste.
History
The term 'Coromandel', which is used to describe this particular type of lacquer technique (kuancai), is rather misleading. In the 18th century it was used commercially to indicate the place from which these objects were shipped to England through the East India Companies, and had no reference to China, the place of their origin. Similarly, Chinese painted wallpaper was often called 'India paper' in historic documants.
The kuancai lacquer technique, literally meaning “cut out colour” and found almost exclusively on screens, emerged in the 16th century to serve the domestic market. The iconographic elements were carved through the built-up coats of dark lacquer and filled with pigments and gold. Seventeenth century examples usually consisted of twelve panels, and were often employed in entrance halls or as room dividers or windscreens for gardens and terraces. They were often commissioned as gifts and depicted court scenes, episodes from the world of the immortals, panoramic or landscape views and auspicious symbols. This type of lacquerware was flourishing during the reign of the Kangxi emperor (1662-1722) and saw a revival in the 19th century.
Stylistically the present screen may be compared with the twelve-panel lacquer screen from the Kangxi period in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by W. De Kesel and G. Dhont in Coromandel Lacquer Screens, ill. 23, pps 36-37.
Such luxurious items were popular in England during the height of fashion for oriental exoticism, called chinoiserie in Europe. In the 20th century, Coromandel screens still remained a staple in the European interior design. Coco Chanel had a collection of 32 rare Coromandel screens, which she proudly displayed in her home at 31 Rue Cambom, Paris. She one...
Category
Asian Chinoiserie 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Three Panel Rattan and Mirror Screen
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A three panel rattan and mirror screen. Each panel is 20 inches wide and features an octagonal and diamond pattern crafted of rattan covering the tall mirrored panels.
Category
20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan, Mirror
Chinese Export Six-Panel Silver Leaf Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese export six-panel folding coromandel screen depicting flora and fauna. Constructed from lacquered wooden panels hand carved and painted. Features a rare silver leaf...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass, Silver Leaf
Mid-Century Modernist Four Panel Mirror Screen w/ Antique Gilt Wood Detailing
Located in New York, NY
This sleek and beautifully formed Mid-Century Modernist Four Panel Mirror Screen W/Antique Gilt Wood Detailing originates from the United States, Circa 1970. Featuring four panels in total with three sections of glass in each panel. The seams between the panels of mirror glass are subtle and give a good sense of scale throughout each panel. The framework is original gilt wood, slender and minimal with a lustrous red base color after which the gilt detailing is applied. The reverse of each panel is lined with a tagboard backing featuring a lovely geometric pattern in muted colors with silver pointillist detailing at each corner of the grid. Antiqued brass hinges connect the panels to one another and are of remarkable quality. A beautiful Screen...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Stunning Art Deco Style Six Panel Screen
Located in Bradenton, FL
Stunning six panel screen/room divider. Screen is designed to replicate tiles of the art deco era, painted in rich colors including sage green, rust, burgundy, and pink. Two splendi...
Category
French Art Deco 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Rattan Bamboo Room Divider Screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Located in Vienna, AT
Rattan bamboo room divider screen Paravant Italy, circa 1965
Ornamental handmade screen from 3 panels made from bent bamboo and rattan pieces held together with leather 'clamps'. ...
Category
Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Japanese Four Panel Screen
Located in Pomona, CA
Hand-painted on silk Japanese four-panel screen. Decorations of temples, trees, and mountains.
Category
Japanese Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paint
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...
Category
Chinese Chinese Export 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
20C Anglo Indian Style Double Sided Profusely Inlaid 4 Panel Screen
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXCEPTIONAL 20C Anglo Indian Style Double Sided Profusely Inlaid 4 Panel Screen or Room Divider.
Made in Hoshiarpur, India, circa 1960-80.
Made of ‘teak’ wood in the ...
Category
Indian Anglo-Indian 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Ebony, Plastic, Teak
Room Divider Wall Unit by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s, Restored
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Wien, AT
This room divider from the 1960s was designed by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, in Czechoslovakia. This is made of bent beech plywood and ash veneer. Completely restored. Exce...
Category
Czech Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Beech, Bentwood
H. Johanssen, Three-panel Screen with Birds and Vines, Scandinavian, 1929
Located in New York, NY
A three-panel screen in painted wood, each panel depicts exotic birds amongst highly stylized flowering vines on a gold ground. The more muted reverse side is painted with a geometri...
Category
Scandinavian Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Pinewood Room Divider by Alvar Aalto for Artek, Finland, 1940s
By Alvar Aalto, Artek
Located in Stockholm, SE
Beautiful room divider by Alvar Aalto, made from vertical slats of pine, snugly adjoined. Can be shaped in various ways and stands steadily on the ground.
Category
Finnish Mid-Century Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Pine
Garouste et Bonetti Rare Black Screen for Christian Lacroix, 1987, France.
Located in Brussels, BE
Rare Elisabeth Garouste & Mattia Bonetti little black screen, designed and only produced in 1987 for Maison de Haute Couture Christian Lacroix, Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, France.
...
Category
French Post-Modern Vintage 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Metal
Large Double-Sided Rattan Leaf Shaped Room Divider / Screen
Located in Isle Sur Sorgue, FR
Stunning double-sided room divider / screen. Handmade with rattan in leaves shaped. Can also be used as a bedhead. In the style of Vivai del Sud, maison Jansen etc..
High quality of ...
Category
European Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Rattan
Vintage 1960s Modernist Inspired Handcrafted Hanging Wall Sculpture/Room Divider
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage 1960s Modernist inspired handcrafted hanging wall sculpture / room divider by New Zealand Artist Andrew Reid. circa 1990s.
Features a combi...
Category
American Mid-Century Modern 20th Century Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wire
