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Fire Screen
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1878–80. Recorded culture or place: America.
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- Museum title
- Fire Screen
- Date
- c. 1878–80
- Culture / origin
- America
- Materials and technique
- gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Herter Brothers (American)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1997.58
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
During the 1870s the New York firm of Herter Brothers produced some of the most sophisticated and technically refined furniture made anywhere in the world at that date. Although the firm is known to have made a considerable quantity of gilded furniture, this fire screen is one of only a few examples to survive in good condition. The painted and gilded embossed panel of birds and flowers was likely made in Japan.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · CC0
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