Flowerpot Fire Screen

Art Institute of Chicago

Flowerpot Fire Screen

Designed by William Morris (English, 1834-1896)LinkedCulture matchlcp-0ff1f0101033

Date
Design early 1880s
Medium
Wood, cotton or linen ground, silk floss
Department
Textiles
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
249141

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.

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Credit line
Gift of Crab Tree Farm Foundation
Provenance
Haslam & Whiteway, London, by 2007; sold to Crab Tree Farm Foundation, Lake Bluff, IL, 6 Sept. 2007 [Crab Tree Farm Foundation cataloging records, copy in curatorial files]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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AAT300435669

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