John & Rico's
# 4177. A late 19th century 5 panel screen. Cut silk velvet. Each of the 5 panels is 22" wide and 78" tall all joined together with double joint hinges. In Newport as with most fashionable towns with houses of note, these screens were an important decorative addition to ball rooms, drawing rooms and bed rooms. This particular screen came from some Newport Estate. Condition: fraying to the outer edges and there is a cut in one of the panels that is about 7" across. Little discoloration between panels. This is a double sided screen with the same cut velvet on both sides. In The new book about Stanford White written by Wayne Craven on page 49 plate 11 is a photo of a drawing room designed by Richard Morris Hunt for John Jacob Astor IV on Fifth Avenue in New York. To the right of the fireplace is such a screen as the one that we offer here. These screens were often used to hide doorways used by servants. New cut velvet of this caliber sells for several thousand dollars a yard today. The price for this screen is $3,850.00.
Note the fraying to the edge of the screen.
The bottom of both sides of the screen has a worn green velvet border.
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