Art grilles in wood that must have been stylish considering a buyer at Boston’s Jordan Marsh put together a trade catalogue of them. From 1895. I grew up in a Queen Anne house in suburban Boston that had one and remember other houses with them. I had thought that they came from the woodworking shops of Boston’s South End but no they appear to have come from the store where 70 years later my mother refused to let my sister and myself buy go go boots. Who knew!

MODERN ART GRILLES. Front cover of a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/mode/1up

Art grille in wood with a statuette sitting on the shelf. Number 1000. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 3 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n3/mode/1up

Art grille in wood with a vase of flowers sitting on the shelf. Number 1006. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 5 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n5/mode/1up

Art grille in wood screening off the staircase that ascends from the front hall with drapery attached to the arched part of the grille over on the left. Number 1021. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 9 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n9/mode/1up

Art grille in wood with a floor to ceiling velvet? drapery attached to the screen by beadwork ? and a tassel on the left and a carved wooden griffin or dragon on the right. Number 1026. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 11 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n11/mode/1up

Art grille in wood, personalized with the name “Everitt.” Number 1025. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 10 (bottom image) of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n10/mode/1up

A very elaborate wood art grille with floor to ceiling draperies with fringe on the left with a glimpse of the newel post leading to the staircase ascending to the second floor with a built in bench on the right in front of the stairs. Number 1025. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 12 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n12/mode/1up

Art grilles in wood, Numbers 1028 and 1029. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 12 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n13/mode/1up

Art grilles in wood, Numbers 1030 and 1031. Came in mahogany, walnut, or Prima Vera (blond mahogany) with a choice of finishes; White or Tinted in an enamel or dull finish, White and Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf, or All Gold using gold liquid or pure gold leaf. Page 14 of MODERN ART GRILLES, a trade catalogue published in 1895 by Jordan, Marsh and Company, Boston. American. Collections of the Canadian Center for Architecture. Cc0 License/Public Domain Mark 1.0. via https://archive.org/details/JordanMarshCoCCA90042/page/n14/mode/1up

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