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Fire Screen
Accession # 41.980.16
Retailer Herter Brothers
Maker Unknown
Title Fire Screen
Date ca. 1881
Medium Brass
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)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. William E. S. Griswold in memory of her father, John Sloane
Location American Identities: Centennial Era
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