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    "localId": "160089",
    "label": "Fire Screen",
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    "id": "160089",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Fire Screen",
    "description": "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.",
    "date": "c. 1878–80",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.58",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Furniture and woodwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.58/1997.58_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.58/1997.58_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America"
    ],
    "accession": "1997.58"
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    "tec": "gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper",
    "tombstone": "Fire Screen, c. 1878–80. Firm of Herter Brothers (American). Gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper; overall: 131.8 x 76.2 x 58.3 cm (51 7/8 x 30 x 22 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1997.58",
    "collection": "Furniture",
    "didYouKnow": "Produced by the New York decorating firm Herter Brothers, this screen would have been used to shield sitters from the heat of a fireplace.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, “Museum Acquires Major Chuck Close Painting, 19th-century Fire Screen, Rare Prints & Drawings,” June 9, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4136"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Hawley, Henry H., \"A Herter Brothers Firescreen\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 38 no. 03, March 1998",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-03/page/n7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Howe, Katherine S., \"Herter Brother's Furniture,\" <em>FMR</em> (April 1998).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 118-9"
        },
        {
            "citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. <em>Knockouts: A Pocket Guide</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 49-50, no. 49; listed: p. 117",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=50820863"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cunningham, Michael. \"Discovering Japanese Screens.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 41, no. 6 (Summer 2001: 4-5.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2001-06/page/n3/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Donley, Gregory M., \"Forward Thinking\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 42 no. 10, December 2002",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2002-10/page/n3"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Berliner, Nancy Zeng, and Edward S. Cooke. I<em>nspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions</em>. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2006.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 49, fig. 10",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=75958409"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Piña, Leslie A. <em>Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D. </em>Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 23",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=268788668"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann.<em> Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 270-1",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=813973055"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade.<em> The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 142",
            "url": "http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=857403600"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.58",
    "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:18:35.374000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1997.58/1997.58_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 160089,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Furniture",
    "med": "gilded wood, painted and gilded wood panels, brocaded silk, embossed paper",
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    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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