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Tripod base; C-scroll legs on ball feet; pole with ball finial. Screen: octagonal with decorative borders around central bouguet of flowers on yellow ground. Backing: reddish- brown leather. Screen attached to pole with brass rings.
pole screens
brass (alloy)
gilding
leather
mahogany (wood)
painting (coating)
stenciling
turning (shaping process)
wood (plant material)
C-scrolls
floral patterns
Mahogany
Leather
Brass
Turned
Painted
Stenciled
Gilded
Floral
Scroll
SCREEN, POLE
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
64 x 17.375 (HxW) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.307
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