A SET OF SIX JUWOODEN SCREEN PANEL

Screens were as fundamental as any other piece of furniture in a Chinese household, Pingfeng of the Chinese word for screen literally means to shield from the wind and a form of portable architecture. Even screens were not merely background decorations but essential props for deflecting the wind creating privacy dividing rooms, to shield women from the gaze of men, to honor those seated in front of them as well as maintaining geomantic harmony as prescribed by the Chinese science of fengshui, and expressing status..