Szilágyi András (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 27. (Budapest, 2009)

Györgyi FAJCSÁK - Andrea FÜZES: Chinese Embroidered Screen from the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

same material as that used for wall hangings or drapery in the same room.

4 In China, the screen has a two thousandyear history.

5 Representations of screens first appear in grave paintings and reliefs 4. Altar erected in garden with ancestral tablet and altar decorations. Woodblock print illustration from the play The Lute. (Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts) from the Han Dynasty (3

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d century AD), on which one-, two- and three-section forms are known. They were set up behind or around beds and chairs to protect against draughts. In buildings arranged along courtyards on a north-south axis, they usually stood on the north wall so that they faced somebody entering the building from the south. They were usually placed behind the chairs and table around which the guests and the host sat (figs. 2-3). 5. Picture of a Chinese table screen 6. Chinese single-leaf screen structurefrom 16

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