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Fire screen |
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Object numberRIF778 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsBase: 55 1/8 × 17 in. (140.02 × 43.18 cm) Screen: 21 3/4 × 22 1/2 in. (55.25 × 57.15 cm) |
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Date176090 |
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Current locationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceH. Eugene Bolles (18381910), Boston; sold to Mrs. Russell Sage, New York, 1909; given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1910 |
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Associated namesH. Eugene Bolles |
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BibliographyMorrison H. Heckscher, American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Late Colonial Period, The Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles (New York: Random House, 1985), 2056, no. 133, ill.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 16401820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 76, 207, no. 48, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 238239, fig. 5.265.26a. Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), 173, fig. 351. Verna Cook Salomonsky, Masterpieces of Furniture Design (Michigan: Periodical Publishing Co., 1931), pl. 100 (measured drawings). Marshall B. Davidson, The American Heritage History of Colonial Antiques (New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1967), 291, fig. 468. |