Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1976.11; photo by Gavin Ashworth Click the image to enlarge	Fire screen
	Object number RIF966
	Maker Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height, base: 60 3/4 in. (154.31 cm) Screen: 22 1/2 � 22 3/4 in. (57.15 � 57.785 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location The Chipstone Foundation
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); yellow poplar (secondary)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions None
	Provenance By descent in the Perry-Miller family, New York and Newport, Rhode Island. John Walton, Inc., Griswold and Jewett City, Connecticut; sold to Polly Mariner Stone (1898–1995) and Stanley Stone (1896–1987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1976; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987
	Associated names Perry-Miller family John S. Walton, Inc. Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone
	Construction The pole to which the screen is attached is fitted into the top of the pedestal. Its finial is a replacement. The screen frame consists of horizontal rails tenoned into vertical rails. The screen itself is held in with circular wood-filled fasteners. It is held to the pole by brass rings attached with screws to the horizontal rails. The upper, double ring is fitted with a pressure bar. The pedestal has a partially reeded, urnform top above a fluted shaft, and a reeded spherical section above a turned base, the whole set into a triangular base, secured from below by a screw pocket. The cabriole legs, carved at the knees with stylized acanthus leaves, are connected to the base by joints concealed with later, screwed-on metal straps. The beaded edge of the pedestal base?s incurvate side continues into the carved knees. The chamfered underside of the legs has prominent rasp marks. Examined by P. E. Kane and J. N. Johnson, May 16, 2014; notes compiled by T. B. Lloyd.
	Bibliography Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 418–419, no. 196, ill.