Chinese Six Panel Screen Set with Diamond Shaped Stained Glass

Six folding leaves, colored glass diamonds above and painted vines below.

This six panel screen set with diamond shaped stained glass is from Macau, China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered & stained wood & glass. Once China slowly opened to visiting diplomats and businessmen, a trickle of antique furniture leaving the country became a flood that lasted through the 1980s, the 1990s and into the early 2000s. A six-leaf folding screen with diamond-pane glass in red, green, blue and clear above. The lower panels show pale painted green vines on a buff ground. Narrow painted bands run across the tops. It is 19 inches long, 2 deep and 95 high.

It turns daylight into a small stained-glass party.