Cleveland Museum of Art

Fire Screen

Herter Brothers

Date

c. 1878–80

Medium

gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper

Culture

America

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. Produced by the New York decorating firm Herter Brothers, this screen would have been used to shield sitters from the heat of a fireplace.

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