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Folding screen

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1890-1950

GUSN

GUSN-293344

Description

Six-panel split bamboo folding screen. Each panel has straight sides and semi-circular top. Woven in a herring-bone pattern with alternating brown and black stripes.

Details

Descriptive Terms

folding screens
split bamboo
Screen

Associated Building

Original To Nickels-Sortwell House (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

Asia

Dimensions

71 1/2 x 117 x 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Frances Sortwell

Accession Number

1958.273

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