RICHLY ADORNED 6 PANEL CHINESE COROMANDEL SCREEN: This magnificent turn of the century black lacquer 6 panel coromandel screen is decorated with peaceful Oriental genre scenes depicting garden parties, musicians, animals, and floating clouds painted and inlaid with bone, soapstone, and other semi-precious stones. Note: The famous fashion designer Coco Chanel was an avid collector of Chinese folding screens, especially the Coromandel screens, and is believed to have owned 32 folding screens of which eight of them were housed in her apartment at 31 rue Cambon, Paris.