Fire screen
Category
Furniture
Date
1740
Materials
Padouk, pine and fabric
Measurements
142.5 x 63.5 x 30.4 cm
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Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 1429989
Summary
A padouk firescreen, c.1740; with a pierced and carved cresting with a coat of arms at centre on front side, a cypher on the back. Plain columnar uprights on trestle base with two stretchers. Rectangular screen covered with a coarse red textile. The arms remain unidentified, however the hand at the centre, the hand of Ulster, signifying a baronetcy purchased.