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The auction was held in November 1905 at the Galerie H. O. Miethke.\r\nThe Ribarz auction catalogue lists many flower studies similar in size to the fire-screen panel: none however seems to correspond to the painting in the screen.\r\n\r\nObject sampling carried out by Jo Darrah, V&A Science; drawer/slide reference 7/75.","historicalContext":"Fischel was a friend of Ribarz whose tomb he designed and on whom he wrote an obituary in <i>Kunst und Handwerk</i> (VIII, 1905, p.501ff.)\r\nThe frame of this screen is a contrast to one designed at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna in 1892 for another painting of irises by Ribarz in about 1892. This one survives in the Österreichisches Museum for angewandte Kunst, although the painting is now lost (see <i>Arbeiten der Österreichischen Kunst-Industrie</i>, Vienna, 1893, II Plate 17).","briefDescription":"Fire screen, Irises, designed by Hartwig Fischel, painted by Rudolf Ribarz, ca. 1905, Vienna","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jervis, Simon: <u> Furniture Of About 1900 From Austria & Hungary In The Victoria & Albert Museum</u>, London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1986, no.8, p. 28, 29"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Kunst und Kunsthandwerk</u>, VIII, 1905, p. 501 ff."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Arbeiten der Österreichischen Kunst-Industrie</u>, Vienna, 1893, II Plate 17"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"flowers","id":"x30131"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["W.8-1983"],"accessionNumberNum":"8","accessionNumberPrefix":"W","accessionYear":1983,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-21","recordCreationDate":"2003-09-29","availableToBook":true}}