Firescreen in Haverhill Room, 1805

Parlor from the James Duncan Jr. House, Haverill, Massachusetts

 

•Date: ca. 1805

•Geography: Made in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States

•Culture: American

•Medium: White pine and plaster

•Dimensions: Dimensions unavailable

•Classification: Architecture

•Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912

•Accession Number: 12.121

 

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 729

 

Provenance

 

James Duncan, Haverhill, Massachusetts, ca. 1805-1818; Mrs. F. W. Wallace, Plainfield, New Jersey, until 1912

 

Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)

 

Essays

 

•American Federal Era Period Rooms

 

Timelines

 

•The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.

 

MetPublications

 

•The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

•Guide to The Metropolitan Museum of Art

•A Handbook of the American Wing

•Period Rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

•The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.)

•A Walk Through The American Wing

 

 

Firescreen

 

•Maker: Attributed to Samuel Phippen (ca. 1744-1798)

•Date: 1785–95

•Geography: Made in Salem, Massachusetts, United States

•Culture: American

•Medium: Mahogany, holly, ebony

•Dimensions: 61½ × 21 × 18¼ in. (156.2 × 53.3 × 46.4 cm)

•Classification: Furniture

•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. A. Goodwin Cooke, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Frederic C. Munroe, and Purchase, Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber Gift and Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1977

•Accession Number: 1977.425

 

This fire screen features a folding shelf for a candle, a refinement found on very few examples. It is transitional in style, with snake feet of the Queen Anne and Chippendale styles and the oval shape and inlay typical of neoclassical designs.

 

Provenance

 

Mrs. Frederic C. Munroe, until 1954; Mrs. A. Goodwin Cooke, Branford, Connecticut and Mrs. William A. Munroe, Andover, Massachusetts, 1954-1977

 

Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)

 

Timelines

 

•The United States, 1600-1800 A.D.

 

MetPublications

 

•The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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