Photo: Courtesy The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wis., 1976.11; photo by Gavin Ashworth
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Fire screen |
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Object numberRIF966 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight, base: 60 3/4 in. (154.31 cm) Screen: 22 1/2 × 22 3/4 in. (57.15 × 57.785 cm) |
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Date176080 |
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Current locationThe Chipstone Foundation |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); yellow poplar (secondary) |
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MarksNone |
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InscriptionsNone |
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ProvenanceBy 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 (18981995) and Stanley Stone (18961987), Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1976; bequeathed by Stanley Stone to The Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point, Wisconsin, 1987 |
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Associated namesPerry-Miller familyJohn S. Walton, Inc. Polly Mariner Stone Stanley Stone |
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ConstructionThe 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. |
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BibliographyOswaldo Rodriguez Roque, American Furniture at Chipstone (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 418419, no. 196, ill. |