fire screen

a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.

Origin of fire screen

First recorded in 1750–60

He had taken up a fire-screen, and was looking intently at the gauze.

A Woman of Thirty |Honore de Balzac
The grate, fire-screen, and poker remain as they were fifty-one years ago.

The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England, Ireland and Scotland: |Thomas W. Silloway
She set her fire-screen down on the chimney-piece, and spoke with tenderness in every tone of her voice.

Father Goriot |Honore de Balzac
And thereupon his hand came upon other objects on the floor: a small table, a fire-screen.

The Blonde Lady |Maurice Leblanc

"Not if you had a fire-screen, Jack," Esme reminded him sweetly.

The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories |Mary Hallock Foote

fire screen

a decorative screen placed in the hearth when there is no fire

a screen placed before a fire to protect the face from intense heat