17TH-18TH CENTURY

Screens were movable partitions that could protect, divide, enhance and beautify a room and were essential elements in the furnishings of Chinese houses. Such large standing screens also served as a status symbol behind the seated master and mistress. For one of the largest and finest examples of a floor screen with removable upper panel, see the magnificent Dali marble-inset huanghuali and tielimu screen, sold at Christie's, New York, Important Chinese Furniture, Formerly the Museum of Classical Chinese Furniture Collection, 19 September 1996, lot 66, and now in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, see Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Chicago, 1999, no. 53.

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