oriental screen measures:

overall - 120"W x 84"H
each panel - 20"W

This beautiful six-panel oriental screen is hand-crafted from wood and has an antiqued faux leather finish with hand-painted design featuring flowers and birds. The back of the folding screen is finished in crackled black and has a simple gold floral design. Each panel of the oriental screen has a border trimmed with antiqued brass nail heads on the front and back. Central border of this oriental folding screen featuring eighteen original flower arrangements. Main screens composition presents a large variety of blossoming trees, flowers and birds. This folding screen is imported by Decorative Crafts, Inc

oriental folding wood screen with faux leather finish and hand-painted birds and flowers motif

- Interesting To Know -

Pigeons and doves are painted among other birds on this magnificent oriental screen. Pigeons and doves have lived on the grounds of oriental temples and being included in the decorative motifs for a long time. Regarded as symbols of peace and, by extension, the achievement of martial strength or victory. Consistent with ancient Chinese tradition they are also symbols of marital fidelity, fertility, and the skyward flight of the soul.

Wild geese are also incorporated in the hand painted design of this oriental folding screen. The southward migration of wild geese in autumn was so celebrated in the Orient, that it led to the incredible popularity of this bird as a decorative motif in the fine and applied arts. First used by Chinese painters, decorative motifs featuring wild geese later were adopted in Japan. The importance of this bird in oriental art was further secured by stories of several military heroes who had achieved victory in battle when a sudden breaking of ranks by flying geese signaled an ambush. This protective role of the birds led to their frequent use in decorating furnishings, folding screens, and possibly also their adoption as a decor as a family crest motif. In Japan, as in China, people associate geese with wedding bliss.

This stunning oriental screen is richly painted in realistic manner. Hand-pained design of the folding screen featuring blooming plum trees, peonies, lotus flowers, orchids, and moonflowers. Among painted birds you can see pigeons and doves, geese, cranes, herons, pheasants, and ducks. This substantial oriental folding screen will create a perfect backdrop or can be used as a decorative room divider

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