Exhibition: The Extraordinary Leek Embroidery Society - Textiles, People, Places (26th June - 14th September 2013) at the Nicholson Museum & Art Gallery, Leek.

A beautiful firescreen - stitched by either Anne Grace (1868-1959) or Annie Redfern (1875-1953) - the label is not very clear. The exhibition includes detailed biographical notes about many of the embroiderers. Annie Redfern is one of the pupils included on the 1888 photograph with Elizabeth Wardle.

Designer: Jane McGown Flynn

Hooked by: Suzi Joones

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164. Firescreen, Edgar Brandt

Nan Sias

I chose to interpret this iron work Art Deco piece by showing the ability of fresh floral material to be as manipulated as iron. The construction of the design is made to form the lines and curves emphasized by the firescreen.

Years of Art in Bloom Participation: 10

Milton Hall

164. Firescreen, Edgar Brandt

Nan Sias

I chose to interpret this iron work Art Deco piece by showing the ability of fresh floral material to be as manipulated as iron. The construction of the design is made to form the lines and curves emphasized by the firescreen.

Years of Art in Bloom Participation: 10

contemporary firescreen detail

Exhibition: The Extraordinary Leek Embroidery Society - Textiles, People, Places (26th June - 14th September 2013) at the Nicholson Museum & Art Gallery, Leek.

158. Firescreen, Edgar Brandt

Debra Schwarze, Bachman’s Floral

Years of Art in Bloom Participation: 8

This room served as the office of the Duke of Bourbon during the 18th century. It was decorated between 1718 and 1720.

On the fireplace is a pendulum clock from around 1715, and in front is a firescreen from 1788 commissioned from Jean-Baptiste Boulard for the bedchamber of the Count of Provence (future Louis XVIII) at Versailles. The large bronze vase was created in 1847 by Benoît Marrel for the Duke of Aumale. It sits on an ebony pedestal by Grohé in the centre of a 19th century upholstered seat . The chairs by Jean-Baptiste Sené date from around 1785, and the gold and carved wood console table by Lemaire is from 1878.

Virgin Radio has just taken delivery of a firescreen, the tapestry of which was woven by prisoners (see www.finecellwork.co.uk/ for more information).

Side Chair

•Maker: Léon Marcotte (1824-1887)

•Date: ca. 1860

•Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States

•Culture: American

•Medium: Maple

•Dimensions: 37 3/16 × 21 × 19½ in. (94.5 × 53.3 × 49.5 cm)

•Classification: Furniture

•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat, 1968

•Accession Number: 68.165.5

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 736.

This side chair is part of a suite of Louis XVI-style furniture that John Taylor Johnston (1820-1893) purchased from the firm of Ringuet-Leprince and L. Marcotte in about 1856. This international firm had showrooms in both Paris and New York, and it is believed that at least some of the pieces of the suite were made in Paris for the New York commission. Johnston, a railroad executive and the first president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, used the furniture in the music room of his residence at 8 Fifth Avenue. The suite (68.69.1-68.69.11, 68.165.1-68.165.6) includes two sofas, two armchairs, a table, two matching cabinets, a third large cabinet, six matching side chairs, a pair of lyre-back side chairs, and a firescreen. After Ringuet-Leprince retired in 1860, the firm became known as L. Marcotte and Company. Léon Marcotte was New York’s most noted cabinetmaker and interior decorator during the 1860s.

Provenance

John Taylor Johnston, New York; his granddaughter, Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat, New York, until 1968.

Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)

Essays

•American Revival Styles, 1840-1876

Timelines

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

Armchair

•Maker: Léon Marcotte (1824-1887)

•Date: ca. 1860

•Geography: Made in New York, New York, United States

•Culture: American

•Medium: Maple, gilt bronze

•Dimensions: 40¾ × 25½ × 20 in. (103.5 × 64.8 × 50.8 cm)

•Classification: Furniture

•Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1968

•Accession Number: 68.69.2

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 736.

This armchair is part of a suite of Louis XVI-style furniture that John Taylor Johnston (1820-1893) purchased from the firm of Ringuet-Leprince and L. Marcotte in about 1856. This international firm had showrooms in both Paris and New York, and it is believed that at least some of the pieces of the suite were made in Paris for the New York commission. Johnston, a railroad executive and the first president of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, used the furniture in the music room of his residence at 8 Fifth Avenue. The suite (68.69.1-68.69.11, 68.165.1-68.165.6) includes two sofas, two armchairs, a table, two matching cabinets, a third large cabinet, six matching side chairs, a pair of lyre-back side chairs, and a firescreen. After Ringuet-Leprince retired in 1860, the firm became known as L. Marcotte and Company. Léon Marcotte was New York’s most noted cabinetmaker and interior decorator during the 1860s.

Provenance

John Taylor Johnston, New York; his granddaughter, Mrs. Chester D. Noyes, New York, until 1968.

Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)

Essays

•American Revival Styles, 1840-1876

Timelines

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

MetPublications

•The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

•Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861

•Nineteenth-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts

The antique-dealer friend who had been selling some vintage stuff for me in 2011 wouldn't take a commission, so I decided to give her this Edwardian Firescreen made of brass and stained glass which I knew she liked.

The hanging pot is by a company called Bretby, for you incurable Googlers!

I have been worried for ages that it would get broken before I found it a new home, and it's not suitable for my own hearth. So off it went!

I have some pics and that's all I need.

As you can see I didn't manage to make an arty shot, but I thought you'd like to see the object anyway.

mirror with painted roses. brass surround and legs

Hooked by: Polly Clark

Designer: Jane McGown Flynn

Teacher: Sally Ballinger

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painting by Beryl Cook, from the exhibition "Larger than Life" in Bristol museum, August 2011

Mary Plantation House, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.

Southwest Style firescreen concept sketch

Exhibition: The Extraordinary Leek Embroidery Society - Textiles, People, Places (26th June - 14th September 2013) at the Nicholson Museum & Art Gallery, Leek.

Painted around 1440. Robert Campin (c.1375-79--1444) was a Flemish painter who together with Jan van Eyck initiated the Northern Renaissance. This work shows the Virgin Mary in a rich, elegant robe breastfeeding the infant Jesus in contemporary Flemish surroundings. Campin cleverly placed the round firescreen behind Mary's head to stand for a divine halo.

This photograph was taken in a traditional 'gassho' house (thatched A-frame house) in the Shirwaka-go World Heritage Site.

The view is looking down from the stairs, to the top surface of the screen which is suspended over the open hearth. This forces the heat back down into the ground floor.

In Japanese houses, visitors remove their outdoor shoes before stepping onto the wooden floors in slippers. These slippers are then taken off before stepping onto the tatami mats - such as those which surround the fire.