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Monumental "Evolution of Empress Josephine" Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Madeleine Castaing-esque wildly imaginative multi-panelled decoupaged and painted screen depicting
Category

Vintage 1940s French Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood, Canvas

Handpainted Screen by Gracie - Gold Leaf, Peonies and Peacocks
By Gracie
Located in New York, NY
A hand-painted screen, with design inspired by a Japanese screen design. Featuring trees
Category

2010s Chinese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paper

Lillian Gorbachincky Atelier Nuvole Glass Divider Screens
By Lillian Gorbachincky
Located in US
Lillian Gorbachincky's limited edition Nuvole divider screen featuring hand-painted screens
Category

2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Bronze

Lillian Gorbachincky Atelier Nuvole Art Glass Bronze Divider Screens
By Lillian Gorbachincky
Located in US
Lillian Gorbachincky's limited edition Nuvole divider screen featuring hand-painted screens
Category

2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Bronze

Trompe L oeil Screen or Room Divider in the Manner of Piero Fornasetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fantastic, one-sided, hand painted screen after Piero Fornasetti. A wonderfully surreal
Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Hardwood

Ronde, Hand Painted Nihonga Screen
By Chen Yiching
Located in Paris, FR
Ronde (mineral pigments on paper, 2014) is a four-panel folding screen by contemporary Taiwanese
Category

2010s French Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paint

Danse, Hand Painted Nihonga Screen
By Chen Yiching
Located in Paris, FR
Danse (Dance) is a four-panel folding screen by contemporary Taiwanese artist Yiching Chen. As a
Category

2010s French Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paint

Mid-century Asian Silk Hand Painted Tabletop Screen
Located in Chicago, IL
Midcentury Asian silk hand painted tabletop screen Vintage four panel Asian silk This screen is
Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Fabric, Silk, Wood, Paint, Paper

Japanese Painted Floor Screen with Cat Sparrow
Located in Seattle, WA
A fine Japanese tsuitate (standing screen) with sugi (cryptomeria) wood panel mounted in a wood
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Ancient Painted Chinese Screen
Located in Vigevano, IT
Ancient Chinese screen, hand-painted and lacquered on both sides. This screen has a great aesthetic
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Elm

Japanese Screen Black Ivory Hand Painted Blossoms Branches Birds Six Panels
Located in Monterey, CA
This extraordinary delicately hand-painted six-panels screen of birds, blossoms and branches is
Category

Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Portuguese Hand Painted Dressing Screen
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
This antique Portuguese dressing screen is an exquisite piece of decorative art that encapsulates
Category

Antique Mid-19th Century Portuguese Other Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Painted Four Panel Screen
Located in Glen Ellen, CA
This oil on panel screen is attributed to the Jansen studio. Painted on both sides.
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Continental Hand-Painted Folding Screen
Located in Southampton, NY
Continental hand-painted wallpaper three-section folding screen depicting a harbour scene with
Category

Early 20th Century European Dutch Colonial Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood, Paint, Paper

Screen Art Deco
Located in Zaventem, Belgium
Screen Art Deco, hand painted with flower motives on leather support, French origin, 1930., hand
Category

Early 20th Century French Art Deco Paintings and Screens

Materials

Leather

Chinese Painted Silk Eight-Panel Screen
Located in Charlottesville, VA
A large-scale silk upholstered folding screen delicately painted with scenes of daily life. The
Category

20th Century Chinese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Silk

Beautifully Painted Art Nouveau Bathing Screen
Located in Atlanta, GA
Asymetrical three panel canvas and upholstered bathing screen. Front painted with beautiful floral
Category

Early 20th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Velvet, Paint

Antique Japanese Screen
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Good 18th century six fold antique Japanese screen with many sections each containing different
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Wood, Paper, Lacquer, Paint

Four Panel Painted Folding Screen
Located in Woodbury, CT
A WOOD FRAMED 4 PANEL SCREEN, PAINTED ON CANVAS WITH BIRDS AND FLOWERS. IN A BLIND AND OPEN
Category

Antique 19th Century Unknown Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Japanese Screen JQ 307
Located in Culver City, CA
Two-panel screen from Japan, Kano School, circa 1900.
Category

Antique Early 1900s Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper, Wood

Japanese Screen JR 132
Located in Culver City, CA
Six-panel screen from Japan, Kano School, circa 1880.
Category

Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper, Wood

Japanese Screen JQ 300
Located in Culver City, CA
Six-panel screen from Japan, Kano School, circa 1750.
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper, Wood

Spectacular Four Panel Hand-Painted Lacquer Screen
Located in London, GB
Decoration and butterfly. This four panel screen is made of painted lacquer with abundant use of gold.
Category

Vintage 1970s French Modern Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Lacquer

19th Century Neoclassic Style Painted Wood Screen
Located in Woodbury, CT
Painted in the Louis XVI neoclassic style on four panels of wood. The back is plain. Hinges allow
Category

Early 20th Century European Neoclassical Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paint

Hand Painted Gold Leaf Floor Screen
Located in Sint-Kruis, BE
Gold leaf room divider hand painted on both sides by Pablo Piatti. Enormous five panel screen
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Painted Leather Screen
Located in Millbrook, NY
Fine 18th century Italian five-panel embossed, painted and parcel-gilt leather screen. Each panel
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Baroque Screens and Room Dividers

Painted Rice Paper Wood Screen (Byobu)
Located in New York, NY
Hand painted byobu screen from Meiji Period Japan. First design available as a pair, with rural
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful full sized Japanese six-panel screen. Gold leaf background. Design of trees, rocks
Category

Antique 1750s Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese Six-Panel Screen with Children
Located in New York, NY
A beautifully painted late 18th- early 19th century 6 fold screen depicting Chinese children
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

A Hand Painted Chinoiserie Four Paneled Canvas Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
vignettes of figures, follies and foilage; painted on a background of peach with green, blue and red; the
Category

Antique 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Wood

Rangel s workshop Folding Screen painted with birds
By Rangel
Located in D.F., MX
Folding Screen painted with birds
Category

Vintage 1960s Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Antique Flemish Tooled and Painted Leather Screen
Located in Southampton, NY
17th Century Three panel Flemish Tooled and Painted Leather Screen with Nailhead Trim
Category

20th Century Dutch Screens and Room Dividers

Grey Painted French 3-Part Fabriced Screen
Located in Water Mill, NY
Grey painted and fabriced French 3-part screen, 19th century
Category

Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Japanese Golden 6-Leaf Folding Screen Painted
Located in Lisbon, IT
Folding with 6 leafs painted on paper with ink, watercolor and guache, depicting landscape scenes
Category

Antique 19th Century Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paper

A LOUIS XV STYLE CHINOISERIE PAINTED SIX-FOLD SCREEN
Located in San Francisco, CA
after a cartoon by Boucher, painted in tones of blue in a cartouche within gold and brown painted
Category

French Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood, Canvas

18th Century French Six-Panel Painted Folding Screen
Located in Boston, MA
18th century French six-panel painted folding screen (Each panel is 25" W).
Category

Antique 18th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Pair of 19th Century Painted Canvas Folding Screens
Located in Boston, MA
Pair of unusual three paneled crusty painted canvas screens.
Category

Antique Early 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Four Panel Painted Leather Screen, English circa 1860
Located in San Francisco, CA
Four Panel Painted Leather Screen, English circa 1860, depicting Bacchus among the vineyards
Category

Antique 19th Century English Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Leather

Highly Decorative Gold Painted 4 Panel Iron Screen
Located in New York, NY
Highly decorative gold painted 4 panel wrought iron screen, each panel is 17.25 w
Category

Vintage 1950s Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Iron

Architectural Trompe L oeil Painted Room Divider Screen
Located in New York, NY
Exceptionally well executed Trompe L'oeil black and white four panel screen or room divider. The
Category

Vintage 1960s Unknown Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood

Japanese Screen Painting with Chinese Lions
Located in New York, NY
Boldly painted six-panel folding screen (byobu) depicting the classic subject of frolicking
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Ink

English Mid-Century Reverse-Painted Mirror Floor Screen, circa 1970
Located in Hinsdale, IL
English Mid-Century reverse-painted and gilt mirror floor screen, circa 1970, with chinoiserie
Category

Mid-20th Century Unknown Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Glass, Mirror

Japanese Two-Panel Silver Leaf Screen with Autumn Grasses
Located in Seattle, WA
Japanese two-panel folding screen, or byobu, depicting hagi (bush clover) and obana (flowering
Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silver Leaf

French 19th century embossed three-panel painted-leather screen.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French 19th century embossed three-panel painted-leather screen. FOR MORE INFORMATION
Category

Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Huge Early 17th c. Italian Venezia Painted Leather Screen.
Located in Milan, IT
Huge early 17th century Italian ,Venetian four panels screen, with embossed and painted leather
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Screens and Room Dividers

Taisho Period Silk Painting Screen of Nobleman and Children Catching Crickets
Located in Honolulu, HI
Pair of Taisho Period (1912-1926) 2-panel screens showing a nobleman on a day outing with two
Category

Vintage 1910s Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

18th Century Japanese Painted and Gold Leaf Four-Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
Edo Period Japanese four-panel screen, mineral pigments painted on gold leaf of an abstract
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Gold Leaf

Exceptionally Large Japanese Screen with Pine Tree Peonies
Located in Seattle, WA
An exceptionally large and finely painted Japanese six-panel folding screen (byobu) depicting an
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Large Chinese 6 Panel Gold Leaf and Black Lacquer Folding Screen/Room Divider
Located in Ghent, BE
painted landscape of trees, birds and flowers on a gold leaf background. Back of screen is black lacquer
Category

Mid-20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

French Ebonized and Polychrome-Painted Canvas Four-Leaf Screen
Located in Madrid, ES
Decorated with chinoiserie scenes with figuresin a garden, the reverse with relief pattern. Each panel 192cm high x 59cm wide.
Category

Antique 19th Century French Screens and Room Dividers

Rare Dutch Six-Panel Painted Gilt-Tooled Leather Screen
Located in New York, NY
Circa 1750. Each end decorated with rectangular reserves containing flowering urns, the central Chinoiserie-decorated panels depicting a sumptuous palace with scholars, actors, music...
Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Dutch Screens and Room Dividers

Lacquered Screen
Located in San Francisco, CA
A 6-panel art deco style lacquered screen in gold, black and red,
Category

20th Century Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Wood, Paint

Wonderful 1940s Decorative Double Sided Painted Scenic Wooden Room Screen
Located in Mount Penn, PA
1940s hand-painted three wood panel room screen with olive green background of underwater exotic
Category

Vintage 1940s American Chinoiserie Screens and Room Dividers

Antique French Four Panel Embossed, Painted, Gold Leaf Leather Screen c. 1840
Located in Houston, TX
and see them first! An antique French embossed, painted and gold leaf leather screen with four
Category

Antique 1840s French Régence Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Gold Leaf

nice art nouveau fire screen with hand painted crane birds. France 1900-1920
Located in BAAMBRUGGE, NL
a beautyful french art nouveau fire screen with floral motifs and crane birds, France 1900-1920.
Category

Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Metal

18th Century Dutch Painted Leather Six Leaf Screen in the Manner of Coromandel
Located in Paris, FR
A rare Dutch painted leather on gold background six leaf screen, with a Fine decoration of palaces
Category

Antique Early 18th Century Dutch Baroque Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Leather

Pair of Hollywood Regency Painted Wood Screens with Faux Bamboo Trim
Located in New York, NY
Pair of charming Hollywood Regency painted wood folding screens with bamboo trim.
Category

20th Century Screens and Room Dividers

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Painted Screens For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of painted screens available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, paint and fabric, all painted screens available were constructed with great care. Find 1709 antique and vintage painted screens at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 68 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture. Painted screens have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Painted screens made by mid-century modern designers — as well as those associated with Art Deco — are very popular at 1stDibs. Robert Crowder, Maitland Smith and Jan Garncarek each produced beautiful painted screens that are worth considering.

Finding the Right Screens And Room Dividers for You

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.

Questions About Painted Screens
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Japanese screen painting is the art of creating byōbu, or Japanese screens. Byōbu vary in subject matter and style. The screens are free-standing, portable and decorated with symbolic images or calligraphy. It is common to find byōbu in pairs with at least two panels. Shop a selection of byōbu on 1stDibs.

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