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Folding Screen

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1880-1900

GUSN

GUSN-64788

Description

3black hinged wood frames; paper cutouts/lt. bl. ground; rev:cotton.

Details

Descriptive Terms

folding screens
chromolithographs
cotton (textile)
paper (fiber product)
pine (wood)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
bear
Bison (genus)
putti (motifs)
donkeys
flowers (plants)
floral patterns
fruit
vine scrolls
insect
panthers (leopards)
Orientalism
pine (wood)
popes
presidencies
religions (concept)
tiger
Pine
Cotton
Unidentified Paper
Chromolithograph
Bear
Leopard
Tiger
Bison
Insect
Donkey
Grape
Fruit
Flower
Pope
Cherub
Religion
Orientalism
Presidency
SCREEN

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

65 x 54 x 1.25 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.1299

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