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"tombstone": "Fire Screen, c. 1878\u201380. 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",
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"title": "Fire Screen",
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"did_you_know": "Produced by the New York decorating firm Herter Brothers, this screen would have been used to shield sitters from the heat of a fireplace.",
"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.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cMuseum Acquires Major Chuck Close Painting, 19th-century Fire Screen, Rare Prints & Drawings,\u201d June 9, 1997, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry H., \"A Herter Brothers Firescreen\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 38 no. 03, March 1998",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9",
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"citation": "Howe, Katherine S., \"Herter Brother's Furniture,\" FMR (April 1998).",
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"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: pp. 49-50, no. 49; listed: p. 117",
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael. \"Discovering Japanese Screens.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 41, no. 6 (Summer 2001: 4-5.",
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"citation": "Donley, Gregory M., \"Forward Thinking\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 42 no. 10, December 2002",
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"citation": "Berliner, Nancy Zeng, and Edward S. Cooke. Inspired by China: Contemporary Furnituremakers Explore Chinese Traditions. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2006.",
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"citation": "Pin\u0303a, Leslie A. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.-2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010.",
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"citation": "Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with, New York, NY: Scala Publishers, 2012.",
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"citation": "Bidwell, Frederick E. and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.",
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"biography": "Christian Herter (1840-83). Born in Stuttgart. He studied at the \u00c9cole des Beaux Arts in Paris before joining his elder half-brother Gustave (1830-98) in New York in 1860. Gustave had been there since 1848 and had worked for Tiffany before founding his own furniture and decorations firm in 1857. In 1864 Christian returned to Paris to study under Pierre-Victor Gallard (1822-92) and in the early 1870s he was in England. Herter Brothers became a leading New York furniture and decorating business in the 1870s and 1880s, being one of the first to abandon the usual run of historical styles and produce pieces rather similar to those made contemporaneously in England, with a discreet use of oriental motifs. Marquetry furniture like that made for the railroad magnate Jay Gould in 1877-82 or the luxurious gilt and inlaid furniture made for the William H. Vanderbuilt House, NY, c. 1882 is typical of the more extravagant type of aesthetic movement in the US. He employed a large staff of craftsmen and designers, the latter including the architect Charles B. Atwood (1849-95). The firm survived until 1906.",
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