Fire Fiend Fireback

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

c. 1885

Designed by Arthur Osborne (American, born England, 1855–1942)
Wellington and Burrage (American, active late 19th century)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artists: Arthur Osborne , Wellington and Burrage (Manufacturer)
Title: Fire Fiend Fireback
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date: c. 1885
Medium: Cast iron
Inscriptions: Cast on central panel, recto, center bottom: No. 9 COPYRIGHTED. 188[...]/[...]LINGTON AND BURRAGE/BOSTON Cast on left and right panels, verso, lower right: 09
Dimensions: Central panel: 77.5 × 70.8 × 2.5 cm (30 1/2 × 27 7/8 × 1 in.); Left and right panels: 78.1 × 44.5 × 1.9 cm (30 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Delphine G. Schoen Trust Endowment Fund; through prior bequest of George F. Porter; through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison and Emily Crane Chadbourne; through prior purchase of the Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; through prior gift of Robert Allerton; Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund
Reference Number: 2019.1201a-c
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Smith and Anthony Stove Company, Some Artistic Fireplaces and Their Surroundings, Boston, MA: 1885 [trade catalog].
Christie’s New York, The House Sale, sale cat. (Christie’s, New York, 2007), lot 895 (ill.), as An American Aesthetic Movement Pierced and Molded Three-Part Fire Screen [central panel only].

Central panel: Graham Devoe Williford (1926–2006), New York, by 2006; sold, Christie’s, New York, The House Sale, Sept. 5–6, 2007, lot 895, as “An American Aesthetic Movement Pierced and Molded Three-Part Fire Screen” to Post Road Gallery, Larchmont, NY [email, February 4, 2019, copy in curatorial file, Arts of the Americas]; sold to Christine Oaklander, Allentown, PA, 2019; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Left and right panels: Christine Oaklander, Allentown, PA, 2019; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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