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__NOTOC__ A fireboard or chimney board is a panel designed to cover a fireplace during the warm months of the year. It was "commonly used during the later 18th and early 19th centuries" in places like France and New England. In warm weather, "a fireboard effectively reduced the number of mosquitoes and other insects, or even birds, that might enter a house through an open, damperless chimney." The "board or shutterlike contrivance" typically "of wood or cast of sheet metal" is "frequently decorated with painting and stencilling."〔 Some fireboards have notches cut out of the lowest edge to accommodate andirons.〔 Fireboards are also called: chimney boards, chimney pieces, chimney stops, fire boards, summer boards. Among the many artists who have produced ornamental fireboards: Robert Adam; Winthrop Chandler (1747-1790);〔 Andien de Clermont; Charles Codman;〔 Michele Felice Cornè;〔 Edward Hicks; Jean-Baptiste Oudry;〔 Rufus Porter.〔 Examples of decorated fireboards are in numerous collections, including: Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts;〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/ )〕 Historic New England; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Peabody Essex Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum. ==Images== Image:Fireboard view of Chatsworth Derbyshire byMicheleFeliceCorne.png|Fireboard with view of Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England, by M.F. Corné Image:Fireboard ca1825 NorthSunderlandMassachusetts SPNEA.png|Fireboard decorated with trompe-l'oeil image of a fireplace and mantel, ca.1825 (Historic New England) Image:Cat and canary fireboard ca1830s CooperHewittMuseum.png|"Cat and Canary" fireboard, France, ca.1830-1840 (Cooper Hewitt Museum) Image:The Great Gale of 1846.jpg|"Great Gale of 1846" fireboard (Peabody Essex Museum) Image:1918 fireboard byGrandmaMoses.png|Fireboard by Grandma Moses, 1918 Image:1936 Banister House Brookfield Massachusetts LC HABS MA345 076888pu detail.jpg|Banister House, Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA (photo 1936) (Library of Congress) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fireboard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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