Fire Screen
firm of Herter Brothers (American)
c. 1878–80
- Medium
- gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
During the 1870s the New York firm of Herter Brothers produced some of the most sophisticated and technically refined furniture made anywhere in the world at that date. Although the firm is known to have made a considerable quantity of gilded furniture, this fire screen is one of only a few examples to survive in good condition. The painted and gilded embossed panel of birds and flowers was likely made in Japan.
