Chinese Four Panel Screen Set with Lattice Design & Opaque Glass Inserts

Four hinged panels of lattice and glowing white inserts, ready to fold away a whole conversation.

This four panel screen set with lattice design & opaque glass inserts is from China, and dates to the 19th century. It is lacquered elm wood & glass. Tibetans were traditionally semi-nomadic and owned few personal furnishings, so most Tibetan furniture stood in monasteries, and some of it was carted over the Himalayas to India as monasteries were destroyed. A folding screen of four leaves, each with an openwork star-and-triangle lattice in dark wood. Pale rectangular panels sit at the middle of every leaf. Plain solid panels form the base, and metal hinges join the leaves. It is 28.5 inches long, 2.5 deep and 99 high.

Geometry this busy deserves a quiet pale window or two.