when we traveled to Hong Kong while stationed on Guam.
This four panel screen is a favorite of ours for over 50 years.
It was our dining room center or focus, hanging so nicely, enriching
our rosewood furniture
Bringing us joy, uplifted spirits and postive energy...
Great Feng Shui!
It is probably one of our biggest investments in art work!
A little sad to let it go, but we've had many, many years
that it's enriched our family so hopefully it will do
the same for someone else!
Wikipedia says:
A combination of lacquer techniques are often used in Coromandel screens, but the basic one is kuan cai or "incised colors",[8] which goes back to the Song dynasty. In this the wood base is coated with a number of thick layers of black or other dark lacquer, which are given a high polish. In theory the shapes of the pictorial elements are then cut out of the lacquer, though in screens where a high proportion of the area is taken up by the pictorial elements, some method of reserving the main elements and saving expensive lacquer was probably used. The areas for the picture elements might be treated in a variety of ways. The final surface might be painted in coloured lacquer, oil paints, or some combination, perhaps after building up the surface with putty, gesso, plaster, lacquer, or similar materials as filler, giving a shallow relief to figures and the like.