Continental Chinoiserie painted leather folding six-panel floor screen. Leather front with painted decoration including floral arrangements in Asian style porcelain vases, bowl of fruit, various birds nesting amongst flowering trees with swimming ducks and floating lotus blossoms along the lower edge, all within border decorated with fan and cartouche shapes, each panel with brass tacked edges. The reverse with ebonized painted wooden frame and later fabric with gilt stenciled floral designs. 95 1/2" H x 129" W (each panel measures 21 1/2" W). 19th century or earlier.

Leather panels have been backed with 20th century fabric. Leather with cracking, lifting, and craquelure pattern across all panels. Some losses to edges of leather at separations/cracking. Wear and scattered exfoliation to painted leather surfaces. Scuffs to painted wooden frame.