Sentence examples for painted screen from inspiring English sources

He stopped again at a red velvet récamier, which was freighted with a cargo of needlepoint pillows, and looked up at the Chinese painted screen behind it.

In three days, it bought a venerable mahogany breakfront, a Biedermeier table and armchair, a painted screen faded dark as a Rembrandt, a folding card table so well used the green felt was ripped and a bunch of antique table lamps.

Whereas the Duchess of Windsor hid "her Capehart behind a coromandel screen" (Flair, February 1950), Cowles tucks her television behind a painted screen by Vertès.

Above them was a painted screen depicting Jerusalem with a dove of peace flying over it and the word peace in Hebrew, Arabic and Latin.

These specimens are organized thematically rather than chronologically, moving from the outside (a Baltimore painted screen door, a push lawn mower) in, and throughout the rooms of the house.

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich NR4 from 14 September until 24 February Women of the Pleasure Quarters A sumptuous painted screen portrays the sex industry in 18th-century Japan.

The East Anglian painted screens are the largest surviving collection of medieval painting.

The castles being built at a rather frantic pace in and around Kyoto required lavish furnishings and decorations, especially painted screens and panels, and the more gold leaf the better.

This results in a total environment of conspicuous but elusive richness, encompassing painted screens, samurai jackets and Kabuki costumes that sag under acres of padded silk and gilded thread.

Many of the pictures are divided into panels, giving the effect of richly painted screens, and nearly all seem faintly gilded, as if mocking the gold mechanical bird of artifice.

In addition to a wide array of tea utensils in various media, the exhibition includes painted screens; calligraphy; containers for flowers, incense and food; clothing; and other odds and ends associated with the Japanese ritual of tea making.