Chinese hardwood screen inset with cloisonné enamel plaques

This superb Chinese folding screen is crafted from Chinese hardwood and cloisonné enamel. The screen features six hinged panels, each panel finished with a shaped apron below and four framed square sections along its front surface. Each section—twenty-four in total throughout the screen—is adorned with a shaped cloisonné enamel plaque: the top tier of plaques are quatrefoil in form, the next tier down are fan shaped, the third tier are circular, while the lowest tier are square with rounded chamfered corners.

Each cloisonné enamel plaque features a pale blue ground profusely adorned with scrolled gold cloisonné wire motifs, above of which is a wonderful array of birds and flowers, each executed in superb polychrome variegated enamels.

The screen is an excellent example of early 20^th Century Chinese decorative art.

Open: Height 162cm, width 225cm, depth 2.5cm
Closed: Height 162cm, width 37.5cm, depth 15cm