Our Furniture Department is thrilled to have performed a complex, multi-step treatment of a Chinese masterpiece. The Imperial Screen was produced as a gift in 1791 during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1711 - 1799), the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty who had one of the longest reigns in Chinese history, lasting just over 60 years from 1735 to 1796. The screen came to the United States for display during the 1939 Worlds Fair; The Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. It is now a prized part of the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Elmhurst, Illinois.