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Paintings and Screens For Sale
Japanese Screen: Spring Offering
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Spring Offering is a small yet exquisitely refined Edo-period screen originally created as a backdrop for a Girls’ Day altar. Against a softly shimmering gold-leaf background, delica...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper, Wood

Japanese Screen: Spring Offering
Japanese Screen: Spring Offering
$1,250 Sale Price
56% Off
Meiji Era, Circa 1900 Japanese Screen Pair, Flowers Birds of Spring Autumn
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of Spring and Autumn Unknown artist. Japan. Meiji period, circa 1900. A pair of six-fold screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper. Signed: Gaga S...
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1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

XIANG TIAN - Relaxing - Vintage Watercolor Painting - Signed - China - 20th C.
Located in Chatham, ON
XIANG TIAN - 'Relaxing' - Vintage watercolor painting on paper - nice quality and composition - signed with a single red chop mark and Chinese characters (upper left) - signed and ti...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens

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Paint, Paper

Edo-Style Six-Panel Japanese Byobu Screen with Gold Paint Landscape
Located in Hamburg, PA
This Asian screen print is a stunning six-panel byobu (folding screen) featuring a traditional Japanese landscape. The artwork showcases a serene scene with a lakeside pavilion set a...
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19th Century Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paint, Paper

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 Paintings and Screens

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Elm

Circa 1920 Japanese Screen. Cat Mouse Harvest Scene on Gold Silk.
Located in Kyoto, JP
The narrative playfulness of the scene depicted on this Japanese screen sets alight what is at its core a celebration of a bountiful harvest. The screen offers a visual representatio...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Gold

Japanese Showa Screen Shell Gathering After Katsushika Hokusai
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating Japanese Showa period four-panel byobu screen depicting women shell gathering or clamming after the painting by Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese 1760-1849). The women are gat...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Japanese Edo Two Panel Screen Children Playing Catching Fish
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Delightful late 18th century/early 19th century Japanese Edo period two panel byobu screen depicting children at play near a riverbank and catching fish. Painted in the Maruyama-Shij...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paper

Chinese Horses - Japanese Folding Screen Silver Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
A six-panel screen, painted in ink on oxidized silver leaf, depicting galloping horses in the style of the finest Chinese paintings. The horse is a universal symbol of freedom. Hors...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Persian Manuscript Page - Garden Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Persian Manuscript Page depicting a garden scene. Circa 18th century. Hand painted scene depicts a hilly outdoor landscape where people are congre...
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Late 18th Century Persian Islamic Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Chinoiserie Panel Wallpaper Hand Painted Wallpaper on Blue Silk /Panel
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 3 ft x 8 ft. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Meiji Period Silver Oxidized Screen
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Meiji Period Silver Oxidized Screen Period: Meiji Size: 352 x 174 cm SKU: 2423 Step back in time with this Meiji period screen, where the allure of silver oxidation artfully c...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silver Leaf

Mountain Mural Hand Painted Wallpaper on Silk Panel, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Mughal School Indian Miniature Painting of Radha-Krishna
Located in Chicago, IL
This 19th-century Indian miniature painting is composed in the Mughal style and depicts a meeting of the Hindu god Krishna and his shakti Radha, also known as the Supreme Goddess. To...
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19th Century Indian Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paint, Paper

Antique Indian Miniature painting of a Maharaja, Jaipur c. 1800
Located in San Francisco, CA
Offered here is an antique painting of an Indian Maharaja in gouache and gold on paper c. early 19th century or 1800. A burly Maharaja stands in profile wearing a white jama or garm...
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Early 19th Century Indian Antique Paintings and Screens

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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 Paintings and Screens

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Brass

Japanese screen: Whispers of Plum Blossoms
Located in Fukuoka, JP
In Japanese tradition, the plum tree is the first to bloom in late winter, its fragile white flowers defying the cold. It symbolizes perseverance, renewal, and the quiet strength to...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Paper, Wood

Antique Japanese Taisho Period Byobu Four Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
Antique Byobu Four Panel Screen. Japan, late 19th to early 20th century. Taisho period.
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Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Antique Hand Painted Indian Folk Art Painting Depicting Musicians and Archers
Located in Yonkers, NY
An antique Indian hand-painted folk art painting depicting musicians and archers in a brass custom frame. Step into a vibrant world of rhythm and archery with this antique Indian han...
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Early 20th Century Indian Paintings and Screens

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Brass

4 Tall Vintage Wall Panel, Oriental, Watercolour on Silk, Framed Art, Art Deco
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a tall vintage wall panel. An Oriental, watercolour on silk depicting a golden pheasant and foliate scene, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1930. A striking decorative ar...
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1930s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Glass

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"
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1970s Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Hardwood, Paint

Mid-20th Century Chinese Xu Beihong-Style Framed Horse Ink Painting by Xiao Ling
By Xu Beihong
Located in North Miami, FL
Mid-20th century chinese Xu Beihong-style framed horse ink painting by his student Xiao Ling By: Xiao Ling, Xu Beihong (in the style of) Material: paper, paint, wood, glass Techniqu...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper

Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass-A Lady Seating in the Room
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a lady seating in the living room and an outdoor garden behind. The decoration in the room is presenting a very traditional Chinese character with paintings, lantain, bonsai, furniture, etc., playing with a bird. The painting comes with its original hardwood frame and the old pins...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Gold Metallic, Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese Large Contemporary Yellow Black Gilded Raised Silk Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Japanese contemporary two panel folding screen or "byobu" featuring genryoku style handcrafted raised silk kimono in yellow, black and gold on a cream color background. Tagasode is t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Brocade

Japanese Edo Four Panel Screen Flowering White Chrysanthemums
Located in Rio Vista, CA
19th century extraordinary Japanese late Edo/early Meiji period four-panel byobu screen featuring flowering white chrysanthemums painted in a moriage (raised pigment) style. The pain...
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19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Brass, Gold Leaf

Set of Twelve Chinese Gouache Paintings in Bamboo Frames
Located in Bradenton, FL
Set of twelve early 20th century Chinese Gouache paintings depicting everyday life of various craftsmen. Examples are a barber, food vendors, ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens

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Paint

Early View of India, Panoramic Mural Hand Painted Wallpaper on Scenic Paper
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be applied to any designs a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Paper

Japanese Asian Signed Four-Panel Folding Byobu Showa Genji Screen Lady Murasaki
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous and quite striking four-panel Japanese Byobu folding screen featuring an elegantly clad Lady Murasaki, the Japanese novelist, (and famed author of the classic "Tale of Gen...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

18th Century Japanese Rinpa Screen. White Chrysanthemums. School of Korin.
Located in Kyoto, JP
School of Ogata Korin White Chrysanthemums 18th Century, Edo period. A two-panel Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper. Dimensions: H. 171 cm x W. 188 cm (67.5” x 74”) On this two-panel Japanese screen we see blooming chrysanthemums, a flower which embodies the essence of autumn in Japan. Here the traditional floral theme has been simplified and stylized. The bright colors and asymmetrical composition against the delicate gold leaf create a luxurious and ornate work of art. Its background, a strikingly patinated grid of gold leaf, denies any sense of place or time and imbues everything with an ethereal glow. The leaves and stems of the plants are nothing more than pools of mottled color and ink without any outline whatsoever. These are typical Rinpa adaptations of traditional ink painting methods; tarashikomi, or diluted washes of color blended while very wet, and mokkotsu, or “bonelessness,” which creates forms without exterior outlines. The relief work of the rounded flower petals has been obtained by the moriage process (a mixture based on ground shells modeled on the surface of the paper). On the lower right of the screen, the siganture “Hokyo Korin Jakumyo” and the “Hoshuku” seal can be read. Korin is Ogata Korin, famed for the Irises (Nezu Museum) and Red and White Plum Blossom (MOA Museum of Art) folding screens, both National Treasures. Korin worked in both Kyoto and Edo in the mid-Edo period. Korin was using the art name “Jakumyo” just after he received the Hokyo level, which was in 1701. This particular screen was published in May of 1961 in the Japanese Sansai Fine Art Magazine*. An in depth article accompanies the photograph of the screen and and a photograph of the signature and seal. This article devotes much of its body to discussing the moriage technique, how it enlivens the chrysanthemum flowers and Korin’s specific skill in using the technique. The article goes on to discuss the most famous works of Korin, utilizing this technique, which were known at the time. Specifically a two-panel screen held in the Honolulu Museum which was discovered in the store-house of Takahashi Soan. A two-panel screen pair which the Nakano family own. A two-panel screen pair with chrysanthemums in moriage in fan designs owned by the Nomura family. Also a small folding screen featuring chrysanthemums held in the Yamato Bunkakan. The article goes on to say that this particular two-fold screen came from the Nijo family. Korin is known to have had a strong connection with the aristocratic Nijo family. The article explains that Korin received a lot of favors from the Nijo family and that this screen would have been gifted to them. Since that time the Honolulu screen has been amended to ‘attributed to Ogata Korin’ and I do not know further details of the other 3 screens. Other Chrysanthemum screens...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

19th Century Japanese Shunga Hand-Scroll, Katsukawa School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Shunga Unknown artist Meiji era, circa 1880 Hand-scroll mounted with 12 paintings Ink, pigment and gofun on silk Dimensions: Each image measures H. 23.2 cm x W. 34.4 cm (9.15” x 13.5”) The hand-scroll measures H. 28 cm x W. 540 cm (11” x 212”) A set of 12 late 19th century Japanese Shunga paintings mounted as a hand-scroll. Two of the leaves bear the signature and seal ‘Setsuzan’, although we are unable to confirm the identity of the artist using this art name. 6 of the 12 images are taken almost directly from Katsukawa Shuncho’s late 18th century woodblock series, ‘Erotic Pictures...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Portrait of a Lady Japanese Vintage Oil Painting by Yoshito Shibata
Located in Chiba, JP
Vintage oil painting on wooden plate, by a Japanese painter, Yoshito Shibata (1910-1995), circa 1960-70s, 24 x 33.3 x 0.5 cm (9.44 x 13.11 x 0.19in)
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1960s Japanese Showa Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Wood

Chinoiserie Mural Hand Painted Wallpaper on Blue Gray Silk - Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 36" W x 96" H. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Antique Chinese Export Reverse Painting on Glass
Located in Norton, MA
A charming late 19th-century to early 20th-century, Chinese export reverse glass painting, depicting a noblewoman within a courtyard setting with a kid who is holding a lotus, walkin...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Glass, Wood

Japanese Kano School Four Panel Screen Birds and Owl
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Amazing 19th century Japanese Meiji period four-panel byobu screen featuring painted panels depicting egrets, heron, pheasants, songbirds, and an owl. Painted with ink and natural co...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Vintage Gold Leaf Lacquer Asian-Inspired Four-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Sheridan, CO
Vintage Black and Gold Leaf Lacquer Asian-Inspired Four-Panel Folding Screen. An Asian-Inspired Four-Panel Screen depicting colorful foliage, floral and grasses on a stunning gold le...
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1950s Japanese Japonisme Vintage Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Japanese screen: Melody of Magnolia Blossoms
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Bathed in radiant gold, Melody of Magnolia Blossoms captures the fleeting harmony of nature in bloom. A graceful magnolia branch arcs across the shimmering surface, its petals unfold...
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Early 17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Paper, Wood

Set of screens by Nitten artist Tozaburo Ohno (大野藤三郎)
Located in Fukuoka, JP
Tozaburo Ohno (大野藤三郎) A Japanese-style painter known for his refined depictions of koi carp and seasonal flowers. Born in 1917 in Osaka (though some sources cite Kyoto), he studied ...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paper

Japanese Antique Bold Hand-Painted "Two Horses" Silk Scroll, Meiji Period
Located in South Burlington, VT
A fine and bold Japanese hand-brushed, hand-painted silk scroll of two horses below plumb tree mountain- worthy of your favorite room Hand painting on silk in simple soft pleasing co...
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Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Fine Asian Carved Teak 4 Panels Screen Room Divider Mint!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Fine Asian Carved Teak 4 Panels Screen Room Divider Mint!
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20th Century Southeast Asian Hollywood Regency Paintings and Screens

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Teak

France Antique Paul Fouillen Arts Crafts Pyrography Platter Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
From an old New England collection of fine Arts & Crafts furnishings. A handsome original deeply carved , pyrography, and stained round platter work of art, circa 1920 Signed rever...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Pine

Large Japanese 6-panel byôbu 屏風 (folding screen) with Edo genre painting
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An elaborate, large six-panel byôbu (folding screen) featuring a detailed genre painting on gold leaf, capturing the vibrancy of festive scenes from the Edo period. Central to the p...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Metal, Gold Leaf

Early 19th Century Chinese Hardwood, Lacquer and Jade Six-Panel Screen
Located in Austin, TX
A very fine mid-Qing Dynasty Chinese hardwood and lacquer six-panel screen, Jailing Period, circa 1800. The hardwood frame inset with black lacquer panels. One side features an over...
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Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Paintings and Screens

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Coral, Jade

Japanese Matching Set of Two Fine Birds And Dragonfly Shoji Doors Screens
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, a fine set of two shoji "Birds and Dragonfly" bamboo doors or screens recently acquired from a Japanese private collector. The hand carved boards are artistically cut and ins...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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Bamboo, Wood

Antique 19th Century Japanese Two-Panel Screen ‘Byobu’, Kano School, Edo Period
Located in London, GB
Japanese Kano School Edo period two-panel screen depicting flowering prunus and bamboo on a rock formation, with colorful birds next to a body of water. ...
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Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Early 20th Century Japanese 6-Panel Gouache and Gold Leaf Painted Table Screen
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c., Showa period gouache and gold leaf Japanese screen. Depicting plum tree blossoms on a riverbank across 6 panels. Plum blossoms are often mentioned in Japanese poetry as a symbol of spring...
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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Mid 18th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Crows Pines by Unkoku Toshuku.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Unkoku Toshuku (1722-1779) Crows and Pines A pair of six-panel Japanese Screens. Ink and gold leaf on paper. Dimensions: Each Screen: H. 170.5 cm x W. 375 cm Haha-cho or mynah birds, whose forms resemble crows in artwork, were commonly depicted in Japanese art. These types of paintings were originally modeled on paintings attributed to the 13th century Chinese painter Muqi (Mokkei), whose art was enormously influential in Japan. Crows only became a theme among Japanese artists from the later 1500s onward. They likely were inspired by these imported Chinese paintings of myna birds, which are not native to Japan, substituting the native species of crow instead.  The best known early examples of the depiction of Japanese crows are two Momoyama screen...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Kiku to Hagi Byobu, Rinpa School Style, Edo Period.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Chrysanthemum and Bush Clover painting on gold leaf six-panel folding screen, painted with clusters of leafy green chrysanthemum plants with white blossoms having moriage relief petals of gofun growing amidst pink blossoming bush clover within a bunched bush clover garden fence rendered in lighter gold relief, all on a background entirely of rich gold leaf. These two flowers are symbolic of Japan and the autumn season. The classic patterned paper verso with a Naga Antiques...
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Early 1800s Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Set of Two Gilt Japanese Paintings
Located in Westwood, NJ
A set of two Japanese paintings, each with a hand gilt background depicting a Japanese Magnolia painted sans traverse across the two panels. The originals Japanese, circa 1900. Di...
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21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Anglo-Japanese Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Giltwood

Japanese Antique Hand Painted Lotus And Blue Waters Screen Vibrant Colors
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisitions- Hard to Find Lotus Flowers A stunning Japanese Antique Hand Painted six panel byobu screen on silk executed with lovely lotus flowers and vib...
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19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Vintage Pichhavai Painting of Krishna and Gopis, Gouache on Silk Rajasthan India
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Pichhavai Painting of Krishna and Gopis, Gouache & Gold on Cloth, Rajasthan Vibrant Indian miniature painting in the Pichhavai style depicting Krishna’s Raas Leela with Radha and the Gopis in a lush forest setting. Hand-painted in gouache and gold on cloth with intricate floral borders. A striking devotional piece from Jaipur, Rajasthan, mid-20th century. The image shows a vibrant Radha Krishna painting...
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Mid-20th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Japanese Chinese Asian 4 Panel Folding Byobu Screen Red Crowned Crane Landscape
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Chinese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a landscape scene with a flock of playful red crown cranes (likely Manchurian cranes), a flowing river, an...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

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Wood, Paint, Paper

Korean Minhwa Jakhodo Tiger and Magpie Scroll Painting on Silk, 19th Century
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderfully painted and detailed Korean folk art Minhwa Jakhodo (The letters “jak” means magpie; “ho” means tiger; and “do” means painting) Tiger and Magpie...
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19th Century Korean Folk Art Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Wood, Paint

Antique Japanese Kachoga Kano School 2-Panel Screen, Edo Period
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese 2-panel Screen of Birds Flowers in a Landscape Setting, Kano School, Edo Period. This Kachoga subject of birds and flowers contains a brilliant mix of a variet...
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18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Chinoiserie Panel Hand Painted Wallpaper on Silver Metallic - Accept Custom Size
Located in Wuxi, 32
If you love the look of De Gournay wallpaper but not the price, this is for you. Measures: 36" W x 96" H. The colorways in this sections present our latest colorways, which can be...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

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Silk

Qing Dynasty Period 19th Century Ancestor Group Portrait in Custom Frame
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese Qing Dynasty period painting from the 19th century of an ancestor group portrait in custom frame. Created in China during the Qing Dynasty, this vertical painting features ...
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19th Century Chinese Antique Paintings and Screens

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Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood

Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor Yellow Imperial Robe Hand Painted Framed on Silk
Located in Topeka, KS
Magnificent vintage Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor portrait wearing a yellow Imperial robe w/ dragons & phoenix, & symbols hand painted on silk matted & framed in black lacquered wood frame. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this is vintage and not new so will have signs of use and wear even if it has been refinished or restored. Specifically, there is some waviness to the silk I assume from being rolled at some point in its life. Please see photos, zoom in for details, and see long description as they are part of the condition report. We attempt to portray any imperfections. Circa, 19th-20th Century. ALL HAIL… HIS MAGESTY… THE EMPEROR!!!! WOW!!! Take a bow folks!!! This is a magnificent hand painted on silk ancestral portrait depicting an emperor (likely of the Ming Dynasty) sitting in his Royal throne… Let’s take a dive into some FACINATING facts… The Emperor’s robes...
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19th Century Chinese Ming Antique Paintings and Screens

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Silk, Glass, Wood

18th Century Five-Panel Chinese Coromandel Screel
Located in CABA, AR
Transport yourself back to the opulent splendor of the 18th century with this magnificent Chinese five-panel black Coromandel screen, a true m...
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18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Paintings and Screens

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Gold Leaf

Vintage Bamboo Paper Wagasa Umbrella with Orizuru Print - Japan - Circa 1950 s
Located in Chatham, ON
Vintage bamboo and oiled paper Wagasa umbrella or parasol - large size - hand made - featuring an Orizuru (origami folded crane) print against a red circle - overall printed textile ...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

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Bamboo, Paper

Japanese Hanging Scroll: Masterful Pair of Cranes, Taisho Period
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A superb and masterfully painted Japanese kakejiku (hanging scroll) from the early Taisho period, featuring an elegant depiction of a pair of cranes—revered symbols of longevity and ...
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20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

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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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