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Rectangular fire screen, XF269, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century, mahogany, wool (morine) and brass. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly.
Rectangular fire screen, English, unknown maker, early nineteenth century
Mahogany with wool (morine); brass fittings
Height: 102cm
Width: 56cm
Depth: 7.5cm
Width: 56cm
Depth: 7.5cm
Museum number: XF269
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The red figured morine (original) in a wood frame on standards with moulded splayed legs terminating in blocks with turned finials on brass castors; the screen has two pull out sections, both lined with morine: the front pulls out horizontally; the top pulls up with small round knob.
The original fabric on and within this screen is a rare survival from the Soane period. It perhaps matched the red tablecloth shown in the 1830 Description view and may be of the same material as the scarlet morine curtains that hung at the south windows onto Lincoln’s Inn Fields at the time of Soane’s death.
The original fabric on and within this screen is a rare survival from the Soane period. It perhaps matched the red tablecloth shown in the 1830 Description view and may be of the same material as the scarlet morine curtains that hung at the south windows onto Lincoln’s Inn Fields at the time of Soane’s death.
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