Fire Screen
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, A Quiet Place
MAKER
Unknown
RETAILER
Herter Brothers, American, 1865–1905
MEDIUM
Brass
DATES
ca. 1881
DIMENSIONS
32 13/16 × 31 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (83.3 × 80 × 29.2 cm)
mount: 33 × 31 1/2 × 12 in. (83.8 × 80 × 30.5 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
41.980.16
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. William E. S. Griswold in memory of her father, John Sloane
PROVENANCE
1882, purchased from Herter Brothers, New York, NY by John Sloane of New York; 1905, inherited from John Sloane by Adela Berry Sloane; 1911, probably inherited from Adela Berry Sloane by Evelyn Sloane Griswold (Mrs. William Edward Schenck Griswold) of New York, NY; September 9, 1941, gift of Evelyn Sloane Griswold to the Brooklyn Museum.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Fire screen, brass; bow shaped cresting attached to frame by a lion mask surmounted by a fruit and leaf finial with fruit surmounts at each corner post which are in turn supported by scroll lion's paw feet, casters in each foot, center of screen has two griffins in rampant position with a cabochon.
Condition: Good
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, A Quiet Place
CAPTION
Unknown. Fire Screen, ca. 1881. Brass, 32 13/16 × 31 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (83.3 × 80 × 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William E. S. Griswold in memory of her father, John Sloane, 41.980.16. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 41.980.16_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 41.980.16_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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