Flowerpot Fire Screen
William Morris (Produced by Morris & Co., London (English, 1875–1940))
Design early 1880s
- Medium
- Wood, cotton or linen ground, silk floss
- Classification
- Coverings and Hangings
- Dimensions
- 101.6 × 59.7 × 32.4 cm (40 × 23 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Crab Tree Farm Foundation
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
The two fire screens in the collection [2018.845 and 2018.846] illustrate the variety of ways in which one could purchase objects from Morris & Co. The Flowerpot Fire Screen was likely embroidered, assembled, and sold completed as seen here. May Morris herself stitched several versions of the Flowerpot panel. The Honeysuckle design may have been a kit that was sold for amateurs to embroider themselves, as the stitching is less precise. Both of these designs could also be made into cushions, and they continued to be sold as kits decades after they were introduced.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
