Rare Commissioned Lacquered Screen or Panelling Originally from Biba

Set of 4 Asian Chinese style (20th Century) black lacquer screen panels depicting geishas, intaglio etched with painting (PRICED AS SET).

A vibrant late 20th century hand painted and lacquered chinoiserie hanging panel. Features an impressive sprawling village landscape set next to a...

Rare traffic light from the 1970's. Everything's fully functional, every single light has it's own switch. Ready to be plugged in (originally standart EU plug, US converter available...

This is a late 20th century chinoiserie screen attributed to Decorative Crafts. It has four panels that would make it versatile to wor...

An exceptional ceramic "Claustra" or screen with brown glaze decoration by Denis Castaing. This claustra is composed of 40 pieces and 5 metal structures. Each piece is signed. This p...

Edgar Brandt inspired wrought iron screen or room divider. Fabulous one of a kind antique three-panel hand forged heavy weight wrought iron screen or room divider, possibly Italian. ...

Ottoman Illusion: Fornasetti's Istanbul Hilton Panel (1955) This monumental Piero Fornasetti colored panel is a rare piece of institutional history, created in 1955 as a special com...

Antique print titled 'Cavelen Cornelis Nannensz Bonogenden, Aryianse Ouwerkerk, Ian Nannensz Kors, Aert Eldertsz Kool, Adryaen Bisdom, Secretares en Penningmeester'. One of the coats of arms from the large wall map...

An important Japanese lacquer Maki-É Panel Depicting St. Petersburg on the River Neva, with the winter palace on the left and the academy of science on the right, 18th century. Nagasaki, 1780-1800 In black lacquer on copper, the front decorated in maki-é, the back inscribed, Vue Perspective des Bords de la Neva en descendant la Rivière entre le Palais d'hyver de sa Majesté Impériale et les batiments de l'Académie des Sciences à St Petersburg in gold and inlaid with flowers in mother of pearl. Measures: H 23 x W 39 cm The present plaque is identical to one in the Museum of Japanese History in Sakura and another one in the Museum of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg. (see: Oliver Impey & Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850, p. 52-53) This last one was given to Catherine the Great in 1794 by the Swedish medical doctor Johan Arnold Stutzer who had served with the VOC in Deshima in 1787-1788. Apparently, such plaques were not unique and may have been made in several copies. This was certainly the case with the smaller lacquer oval portrait medallions (see for instance Uit Verre Streken, June 2017, no. 62) The scene of St. Petersburg was copied from an optical print taken by Stutzer to Japan, as shown by Yasumasa Oka of the Kobe City Museum. Stutzer in his diary writes: “I am the first to bring them (i.e. the Japanese) original pictures such as a view of St Petersburg and of Rudolf XV on horseback and try to have them made (in lacquer). According to the Japanese, it is the first time that these two pictures will be copied. Other products that I also ordered, for example, pictures of sea battles, are also appreciated as absolute masterpieces”. For two lacquered plaques depicting the sea battle of Dogger Bank in 1781 between the Dutch and the English navies, see Uit Verre Streken, December 2013, nr. 39 and March 2015, nr 56. Johan Strutzer at the same time also presented six beautiful Japanese glass telescopes to Catherine the Great of Russia, like the two Japanese glass telescopes illustrated in Uit Verre Streken, March 2015, item 59 and 60 and the one in the Kobe City Museum (illustrated in: Japan Envisions the West, 16th-19th Century Japanese Art...

Made for the Admiral Hotel in Copenhagen, this rare large scale silk screen print was made by Danish artist Bjørn Wiinblad (1918-2006) in the 1970s as part of a series for the hotel'...