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Paintings and Screens For Sale
China Contemporary Natural Stone Space Artifacts "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
Artifacts floating in space?
A unique and remarkable black and white depiction with a contemporary feel of floating artifacts may be observed in this one-of-a-kind Chinese extraordi...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
Japanese Two-Panel Screen: Egrets in Japanese Red Pine with Gold Ground
Located in Hudson, NY
Seven graceful Egrets perched upon very vibrant pine. Representing strength, luck, and longevity. A harmonious balance in nature. Mineral pigments on Mulberry paper with dark brown ...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Turtles
Azalea
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & flowers of the seasons
Pheasants & plum in snow
Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888
Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Flowering Lilies on the Beach with Dancing Crabs
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Flowering Lilies on the Beach with Dancing Crabs.
Taisho (1912-1926) period painting of spider lilies, tiger lilies, and morning glories in bloom at the ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Silk
Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Swallows in Tropical Landscape ‘Southern Islands’
Located in Hudson, NY
Okinawa painting with palm trees, flying swallows, and antheriums. Graphic and dynamic splashes of color and design gives this painting an air ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood, Lacquer
Extraordinary Black
White "Moonlight Mountains" Natural Work of Art
Located in South Burlington, VT
Extraordinary natural stone work of art, one of a kind.
This Chinese extraordinary natural stone "painting" suggestive of a wavy mountain landscape features light and dark colors...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Trees in Floral Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Trees in Floral Landscape, Edo period painting (mid 19th century) of pine and other trees amongst flowers, with bamboo shoots on the right panel, and white...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Collotype Print by Ryunosuke Fukui
from "Maiko" Series
- print no 9
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A large print created by Ryunosuke Fukui, a highly acclaimed modernist artist from Japan who lived between 1923 and 1986. Fukui's art has been exhibited in many prestigious museums a...
Category
20th Century Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Other
Thangka Tibetan Painting Green Tara Hand Painted Gilt
Located in Somis, CA
An exceptional, most unique, extra long hand painted Tibetan Thangka featuring the beloved Green Tara. Seated on a high lotus throne with a pair of holy beasts, her right leg extende...
Category
2010s Nepalese Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Paint, Wood, Paper
$650 Sale Price
58% Off
1950s Asian Eight-Panel Silk Embroidered Folding Floor Screen Room Divider
Located in Germantown, MD
A beautiful Chinese Embroidered Eight-Fold Floor Screen or room divider in good vintage condition. Stunning roses, birds butterflies embroidered. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Fabric, Silk, Wood
$4,425 Sale Price
25% Off
China Trade Watercolors of Flower Baskets with Chinoiserie Frames, A Set of Six
Located in Downingtown, PA
Set of Six China Trade Watercolors on Pith Paper: Hanging Flower Baskets
This charming and delicate set of six China Trade watercolors, dating from circa 1850, offers a beautiful gl...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Framed Chinese Erotic Pillow Book, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A pillow book was meant to teach a young bride about the art of lovemaking. This rare museum-quality 19th century example is composed of 12 masterfully pai...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Paper
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 Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
$769 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Six-Panel Screen, Chrysanthemums and Twig Fence With Gold Flakes
Located in Hudson, NY
Rimpa School painting in mineral pigments with gofun and gold flakes on mulberry paper with a silk brocade border.
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold
Vintage Marcel Catelein Place de la Concorde Original Painting
Located in San Diego, CA
Very unique and beautiful oil on canvas rendition by celebrated French painter Marcel Catelein. This original piece depicts the Place de la Concorde in Paris, featuring the fountain...
Category
1950s French Expressionist Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Hand Painted Thangka Gold White Tara
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisitely hand painted Tibetan Thangka by one of our master artists in Nepal featuring the majestic White Tara. Seated Dhyana Asana upon a lotus throne, her ethereal presence is...
Category
2010s Nepalese Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paint
$655 Sale Price
57% Off
Selections from the Paintings and Calligraphy Donated to the Shanghai Museum fro
Located in valatie, NY
Selections from the Paintings and Calligraphy Donated to the Shanghai Museum from the Ching Banlee Liangtuxuan Collection. Published by Shanghai Museum, Shangahai, China, 2002. 1st E...
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Early 2000s Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Large Oil Painting of Diana the Huntress
Located in London, GB
Lovely Large Oil Painting of Diana the Huntress in ornate Giltwood Frame
This PAinting Shows the Hunting Party emerging from the Woods
After Paul Rubens (1636-1637)
Oil on Canvas
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Classical Roman Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Bamboo Grove on Mulberry Paper with Gold Dust
Located in Hudson, NY
Kano School painting of a bamboo grove with blooming flowers and gold dust mists. Painted in mineral pigments on mulberry paper with gold dust and a silk brocade border.
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold
Japanese Asian Edo Period Tosa School Original Painting Imperial Court Officials
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and very engaging Edo Period (1603-1868) Japanese Tosa school original painting featuring two officials from the Imperial Court.
The Tosa school (土佐派,) of Japanese pai...
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1830s Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
Ephemeral Beauty: Set of Six Chinese Export "Pith Paper" Paintings of Butterflie
Located in Downingtown, PA
Ephemeral Beauty: Set of Six Chinese Export "Pith Paper" Paintings of Butterflies,
Circa 1840–1860
A charming and cohesive set of six mid-19th century Chinese Export paintings, exec...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Chinese Relief Carved Architectural Panel with Fruit and Flora, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes this handcrafted panel so impressive: the artful relief carvings of seasonal fruit and lush, foliage-filled vases ...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Spruce
Antique Photographic Prop Screen, Japanese, Silk Cotton, Room Divider, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique photographic prop screen. A Japanese, silk cotton embroidered 4-fold room divider, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Delicate time-worn condition ideal for set dressing or decorative purposes
Displays a desirable aged patina, in original order
Four fold frame dressed in textiles and wooden panels
Golden silk cotton shimmers delightfully in the light
Embroidered with charming birds and foliate decor
Each panel adorned with carved fretwork borders and domed crowns
This is a charmingly time worn antique photographic prop screen, with an appealing Japanese decor...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Late Victorian Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Signed painting on silk depicting Bamboo and Bird
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Japanese Signed painting on silk depicting Bamboo and Bird
This exquisite painting on silk depicts a beautiful bamboo and a bird, signed by the talented artist Waichi.
The pi...
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood
China Stunning Black And White Moon Light Natural Marble Stone "Painting"
Located in South Burlington, VT
A unique black and white "moon light" reflection stirs your eye and awaits you in a bubbling tide in this Chinese extraordinary natural marble stone landscape painting called a dre...
Category
20th Century Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Marble
Vintage 1960s Samuel Heller "Mountain Landscape" Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage 1960s Samuel Heller "Mountain Landscape" on Canvas Painting, Signed. Artist: "NY listed artist Samuel S. Heller (1902 - 1997). Was active/ lived in New York, Pennsylvania, En...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Large Chinese Export Reverse Paintings on Glass, the Beauty
Located in Norton, MA
Large charming 19th-century Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting the beauty of traditional Chinese customs and clothing decorations on the noblewomen. The paintings come with their original hardwood frame and the old pins...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Chinese Pair of Poetic Calligraphy Scrolls by Luo Er Dong Zhuang
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Pair of Calligraphy Scrolls, vertical lines of calligraphy executed in a light style, right reading: “Moon Rises and the Candle has no Effect” and the left reading: “Wind Ris...
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20th Century Chinese Other Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Large Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Mirror
Located in Norton, MA
A large charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse mirror painting, depicting a lady setting in her library. The ...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass, Wood
Japanese Rare Antique Scroll of Waka Heart Poem Famous Rengetsu Otagaki, signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a rare paper scroll hand painted by renown Rengetsu Otagaki (1791-1875). She was a very famous nun in old Japan and being familiar with poetry, her Waka poems on paper, and e...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Chinese Asian Two-Panel Byobu Folding Screen Ancestral Immortal Figures
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous, quite large, boldly colored, and alluring hand-painted two-panel Chinese/Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting 18 exquisitely clad male ancestral or immortal figu...
Category
20th Century Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
"19th-Century Bird Portrait: Exquisite Ornithological Illustration"
Located in Southall, GB
This exquisite 19th-century bird portrait showcases the beauty and grace of its avian subject with remarkable detail and artistry. The artist's skillful ...
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19th Century English Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Lovely Edo Period Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Saeki Kishi Ganku Dragon Clouds
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Saeki Kishi Ganku "NoboriRyuzu" silk painting hanging scroll with box
Size Axis ... vertical 163.5cm horizontal 43cm
picture ... vertical 96cm horizont...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$1,307 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Framed Silk and Brocade Japanese Contemporary Oshie Wall Decorative Art
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Large Japanese contemporary framed silk and brocade Oshie wall decorative art, exceptional Japanese contemporary framed and signed three-dimensional wall decorative art piece in silk...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Silk
Early 19th Century Chinese Botanical Butterfly Watercolor on Pith Paper
Located in CA, CA
A 19th century Qing dynasty Chinese watercolor featuring a botanical scene. A broken branch suspended mid page features a striking butterfly atop a vivid reddish orange camellia flow...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
"19th-Century Insect Illustration: Detailed Entomological Art"
Located in Southall, GB
This detailed 19th-century insect illustration showcases the intricate beauty and complexity of its subject with remarkable precision. The artist’s fine brushwork and vibrant colors ...
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19th Century English Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Vintage Mid-Century Walnut Decorative Room Divider
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful vintage mid-century wood screen that's tall and architectural. With linear details and minimal lines, this piece complements a variety of styles. The featured height give...
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1960s American Colonial Revival Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
The Temptation 1957 by C J Anthony Doss
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a GLORIOUS Contemporary piece of Art by a recognized Indian Master – C J Anthony Doss – The Temptation 1957 .
This piece has impeccable Provenance !
It was purchased by a Private Dallas Collector at Sotheby’s New York Auction on 20th September 2005. Sale No: 8111 Lot No. 223.
Sotheby’s operate a twice yearly auction of Southeast Asian Art & Antiquities in New York in the months of March and September.
This sale was titled “Indian and Southeast Asian Art”.
The Lot is described as: “C.J. Anthony Doss (b. 1933) THE TEMPTATION. Signed and dated ‘C J A Doss/57’ lower right.
Oil on canvas laid on board.
27.5 by 20.5 in (69.9 by 52 cm.)
The Provenance is given as: “Property from the Collection of Mr. Artur Isenberg”.
The painting carried an Auction estimate of USD 2,000 to USD 4,000.
Allowing for inflation alone this would be over $6,000 in today’s value.
As an added bonus and proof of authenticity the painting still retains it’s original Sotheby’s Lot No. Label.
It has substantially increased in value over the years as a HIGHLY DESIRABLE piece from an exhibited and highly collected Modern Indian Master painter.
C.J. Anthony Doss is a very highly regarded and widely exhibited, Indian painter. He was born in 1933 and died in 2008.
DAG Modern in Mumbai featured Doss’s work.
Doss represented India at biennales in Paris and Sao Paulo. He was also a prominent member of the South Indian Society of Painters. His works are in Indian museums...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint, Paper
Bali Hindu Textile Framed
Kamasan
Painting, Indonesia C. 1920
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A mid-20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. Key features of this image ar...
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1950s Balinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Cotton, Paint
Asian Two Panel Table Screen Flowering Prunus 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...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Antique French Painted Porcelain Framed Wall Plaque Signed Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Victorian Painted Porcelain Wall Plaque "Punishment of a Child" signed Jean-Baptiste Greuze. Artwork entitled 'Correction Maternele Dediée à Madame la Duchesse de Bran...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bronze
19th-Century Butterfly Illustration: Elegant Entomological Art
Located in Southall, GB
This elegant 19th-century butterfly illustration captures the delicate beauty and intricate patterns of these winged wonders. The artist’s skil...
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19th Century English Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Glass
Japanese Gohonzon Buddhist Calligraphy Mandala Scroll Meiji Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese sumi ink calligraphy Buddhist mandala mounted as a paper hanging scroll known as Kakejiku or sometimes Moji mandala. Termed as gohonzon in Japanese, it is a venerated object within Nichiren Buddhism (Hokkeshu; lotus sect). The originally concept was developed by the 13th century Buddhist priest Nichiren to guide the energy of the devotional chanting to...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Contemporary Japanese Red Black Gilded Silk Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Extraordinary Japanese contemporary two panel "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style handcrafted raised pure silk kimono in black, red and gold on textured black backgrou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Brocade
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Horses in Stable
Located in Hudson, NY
This is a beautiful and evocative antique Japanese six-panel folding screen (Byōbu), a classic example of the popular "Horses in Stable" (Umaya-zu) motif from the Edo Period (1603-18...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Silk, Paper
Thangka Green Tara w Mantra Hand Painted Tibetan Painting
Located in Somis, CA
A finely gilded, hand painted Tibetan Thangka depicting the beloved Green Tara. Seated lalita asana, Tara has her right foot on a pendulous lotus in the motion of stepping down from ...
Category
2010s Nepalese Tibetan Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brocade, Wood, Paint
$455 Sale Price
66% Off
China Trade Set of Six Sunqua Still Life of Fruit
Flowers Paintings
By Sunqua
Located in Downingtown, PA
China Trade set of six Gouache Still Life Paintings of Fruit & Flowers on Pith Paper,
Each Signed Sunqua,
mid-19th century
The fine China Trade pith paper painting...
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Mid-19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Victorian Oil Painting of Young Girls on a Beach
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming Victorian Oil Painting of Young Girls on a Beach from the late 19th Century. A pair of sisters? in period costume on a windy beachscape near t...
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1880s American Victorian Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Canvas
Framed Riga Gound from Nigeria With Tribal Motifs
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A framed Riga Gound from Nigeria. Elite Nigerian men wore grand, flowing garments known by various names: riga (Hausa), agbádá (Yorùbá), boubou (French), and mbubb (Wolof). This particular strip-woven riga features a off-white, very light grey tone with silk accents adding contrast. Skilled embroiderers—often trained in Arabic calligraphy—incorporated motifs once imbued with protective Islamic symbolism. Central to the textile is a leaf (gambiya) motif, linked to the Nupe people. A spiral design symbolizes the wearer’s spiritual journey toward God. The hem is lined with magenta silk, imported via trans-Saharan trade routes. Historically admired across cultures, the riga remains a cornerstone of pan-Nigerian male national dress today.
This framed Riga Gound has a unique back story. Having owned a prominent antiques shop in Hong-Kong for more than two decades it was common for antique dealers to sometimes come to the shop and present items to sell...
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1980s Nigerian Folk Art Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Chinese Export Four-Panel Red Lacquer Screen, c.1900
Located in Savannah, GA
A Chinese export four-panel red lacquer screen, circa 1900.
65 inches wide (as pictured) 71 ½ inches tall by 1 inch deep
Category
Early 1900s Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Indian Mughal Miniature Painting in Vizagapatam Inlay Frame
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Indian Mughal Miniature watercolor painting in white inlay frame
Indo-Persian hand painted watercolor miniature watercolor painting in very fine art w...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Agra Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Balinese Painting on Silk with Bamboo and Woven Rattan Frame, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Spectacular large Balinese Painting on Silk with an outstanding bamboo and woven rattan frame. This marvellous painting was realized in Bali around the 1960s and is signed on the bot...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Bamboo, Wicker, Cane, Rattan, Silk, Glass, Paint
Japanese Imperial Pair Dolls 1840
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese acquisitions
A rare couple.
These Japanese Tachibina dolls represent the simplest essential form of the imperial couple. Their beautiful faces were crafted from crushed shell called gofun coated over carved wood and their dress feature period Edo (1840) textile kimono dress.
Used as the display for the Girl’s day celebration, more specifically they are constructed of kinran brocade fabric covered paper, the heads carved of wood and covered in gofun with painted features and inset hair, the male form with outstretched arms and conical legs, the female has a cylindrical form. They come in an original kiri wood storage box.
Dimensions: Large doll 12 inches tall and 6 inches wide
Small doll...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Shell, Wood
$280 Sale Price
85% Off
Twelves Etchings Pavilions And Gardens In The Imperial Grounds Of YUANMINGYUAN
Located in Greenwich, CT
TWELVES ETCHINGS OF PALACES, PAVILIONS AND GARDENS BY GIUSEPPE CASTIGLIONE IN THE IMPERIAL GROUNDS OF THE SUMMER PALACE, BEIJING, YUANMINGYUAN
1977
The original etchings were created...
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1970s Chinese Vintage Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Scroll Painting, 19th Century Chinese Pheasants by Yoshizawa Setsuan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Chinese Pheasants
Yoshizawa Setsuan (1809-1889)
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk.
Painting inscription: Setsuan Houyou
Upper seal: Y...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
"Pot Head" by Robert Loughlin
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Pot Head" by Robert Loughlin signed and titled to verso 'Pot Head RL'. Sold with a letter of authentication from Gary Carlson.
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings and Screens
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic
Japanese Brush Painting of a Standing Bodhisattva of Mercy
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese brush painting of a standing Bodhisattva of Mercy, beautiful colors and brush work, 19th century, original brocade mount
I am planning to reti...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
$2,200 Sale Price
38% Off
American Pair Garden Gnomes Good Luck Garden Guardians, Keeper of Keys
Located in South Burlington, VT
Nostalgic opportunity
America's friendly gnomes- a rare pair (2) of Happy Garden Legends "Keeper of Keys" and bearer of the night lights.
Si...
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings and Screens
Materials
Iron
$236 Sale Price / set
72% Off
Lovely 20th Century Scroll Paintings Japan Artist Signed Tree in Ink Waterfall
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
Hanging scroll "waterfall" silk true work Zaimei (Taishan)
Condition is good
Size: Axis, vertical 198.5 cm horizontal 68.8 cm
Picture, vertical 129 cm horizontal 55 cm.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Chinese Calligraphy Scrolls in Mark Humphrey Gallery Frames
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A pair of boldly brushed Rice Paper Calligraphy Panels having a particularly fine Asian presentation. One panel with 10 Calligraphic characters and the other with 4 and both with red...
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20th Century Asian Ming Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Antique Asian Paintings and Screens
Traditional Asian paintings were often created on scrolls and folding screens. Artisans made screens that could be folded up or spread out by connecting several panels using hinges. Today, antique Asian folding screens and paintings are sophisticated decorative accents that can serve as makeshift partitions to ensure privacy.
The original folding screens were created by Chinese artists. The earliest record of screens comes from the 2nd century B.C., and surviving examples date back to the Ming dynasty. Chinese painting utilizes many of the same tools as calligraphy — these screens were crafted from wood with painted panels featuring striking art or calligraphy that told cultural stories or represented nature and life in the area.
The practice was introduced to Japan, where paintings for screens were made on paper and silk, in the 8th century. These paintings frequently feature subjects such as landscapes, animals, flowers and Buddhist religious themes. Along with screens for tea ceremonies and dance backgrounds, there were screens for use in Shinto and Buddhist temples.
In the 17th century, screens began to be imported to Europe where their popularity grew. Coco Chanel famously collected Coromandel folding screens.
Traditional Asian paintings can make a tasteful addition to any wall, and screens can be used as decoration or, in the case of larger iterations, as an aesthetic way to divide a large room. Browse the selection of antique Asian paintings and screens from a variety of styles and eras on 1stDibs.
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