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Fire screen, English, unknown maker, Mahogany and wool, XF17. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photograph: Hugh Kelly
Fire screen, English, unknown maker
Mahogany and wool with brass hinges
Height: 100cm
Width: 46.5cm
Depth: 2.7cm
Width: 46.5cm
Depth: 2.7cm
Museum number: XF17
Not on display
Curatorial note
In two parts joined with brass hinges; plain wooden frame with red morine lining; four moulded legs with two turned stretchers. This seems likely to be the ‘1 Mahogany framed fire screen with red Morine lining’ described in the Furniture and Fittings inventory as being in this room in 1837.
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