Folding Screen
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- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal; paper
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0069
- Description
- A large, folding, four-paneled screen with painted lake scene one side, patterned gauze material the other. Scene, painted on canvas with water based pigments, covers entire screen from side to side and top to bottom, tranquil lake with small sailboats and thatch-covered hut in the background, thre…
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- Title
- Folding Screen
- Date
- 1900 – 1935
- Material
- wood; fibre; metal; paper
- Dimensions
- 168.0 cm
- Description
- A large, folding, four-paneled screen with painted lake scene one side, patterned gauze material the other. Scene, painted on canvas with water based pigments, covers entire screen from side to side and top to bottom, tranquil lake with small sailboats and thatch-covered hut in the background, three white herons and water lilies in the foreground beside a tall stand of white orchid-like flowers and spikey leaves filling the whole right panel and half of the next panel. Back is covered with green gauze material printed with a stippled white background around silhouettes of large flowers, traces of faded red define some of the petals within the flowers. Screen is hinged by means of the canvas and backing fabric continuing from one panel to the next, and folds in accordion fashion. Screen framed along sides and bottom and top with wood which has been finished with reddish paint and graining technique, outer corners trimmed and protected with short strips of thin, embossed sheet metal, with flower blossom shaped tacks evenly spaced along the edge. Left side has additional strip in the middle. Each screen panel has wooden skeleton frame beneath fabric consisting of a single upright with cross braces down its length. Back of skeleton frame beneath gauze covered with black paper, beneath canvas with brown paper.
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- furniture
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.03.0069
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