This zitan wood screen is constructed with three panels in the form of the Chinese character ba (meaning eight). With a plain frame and a double-svastika brocade pattern bordering each panel, the screen is surmounted by a conjoined, tripartite Vairocana-style crown (Chinese Pilu mao) with a kui-phoenix design and matching corbels while being supported by a Sumeru-plinth style stand in the ba-character form embellished with delineated-lotus and plantain-leaf patterns. The zitan wood screen panels are ornamented with a carved cloud pattern and boxwood inlays of dragons frolicking with flaming pearls.

Each panel features carved dragons in boxwood, which creates a colorful contrast with the dark zitan cloud pattern and adds vividness to the compound dragon-among-clouds design—a fitting motif as the screen would have been situated behind a matching throne. Created in a palace workshop with meticulous craftsmanship, the screen is a superb example of furniture made during the Qianlong reign (1736–1795) of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911).