Coromandel Chinese Folding Screen

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Offering a unique hand painted and hand carved four-panel Chinese Coromandel folding screen featuring a luminous gold leaf circular medallion … Read more Offering a unique hand painted and hand carved four-panel Chinese Coromandel folding screen featuring a luminous gold leaf circular medallion roundel with an elaborate courtly landscape with Chinese figures, pavilions, and riverside scenery, set against a black lacquer background enriched with bamboo decoration and carved Greek Key borders showing terracotta color of the clay base, circa Mid 20th Century.

The back of the screen's composition centers upon a mature weeping willow tree with pendant branches and delicately rendered foliage, overlooking a tranquil lotus pond populated by birds and framed by stylized scholar's rocks framed with a floral geometric border.

VERY GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION. Some lacquer loss on the back of the screen on the right panel, indicated in the last photo with arrows. Please see photos. Solid brass hinges and feet-covers, tarnished with patina commensurate with age.

SIZE:
Overall Size:
72" High
64.75" wide
Each panel is 16" wide

In Home Delivery Only

COROMANDEL CHINESE SCREENS:
Coromandel lacquer is a type of Chinese lacquer-ware, mainly made for export, so called only in the West because it was shipped to European markets via the Coromandel coast of south-east India. Each of the four panels are made of wood and covered in a soft clay and gesso followed with multiple layers of lacquer, then hand-carved and hand-painted with the designs....truly an amazing painstakingly executed work of art! See less