Fire screen

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Fire screen

Entry/Object ID

MP.87.88

Description

U-shaped, interwoven steel firescreen with brass gallery and bottom guard: gallery formed by eleven brass uprights supporting curved length of brass and eleven brass urn-shaped finials; "turnings" on uprights (from top to bottom): ring, ring, reel, ring, cylinder, shallow reel, reel, reel; each upright fits over a square-in-section iron rod; rods also pierce half-round brass length below brass uprights; iron rods support five horizontal iron rods which in turn support green painted interwoven mesh of C-shaped lengths of steel wire; egg and dart pattern on brass bottom guard; U-shaped iron bar behind; iron flange interior bottom; five ball feet with a band of double vertical lines running around them.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1800 - 1867 Date made: r. 1800 - 1867

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

MP.101

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

18-3/4 in

Depth

14-1/4 in

Length

58-1/4 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 18 3/4 x 14 1/4 x 58 1/4 in. (47.6 x 36.2 x 148 cm)

Material

Iron, brass, Steel

Condition

Notes

Remarks: Details of condition: Some corrosion on iron flange.

General Notes

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Montgomery Place, Montgomery Room