polescreen

noun2

1. •
   A style of firescreen consisting of sliding panels mounted on upright poles.

   • The eighteenth-century designer Thomas Sheraton once qualified the purpose of a polescreen or firescreen as " a piece of furniture to shelter the face or legs from the fire . " — 1995
2. •
   (historical) A screen mounted on a pole.

   • The most prized of the furnishings perhaps is the polescreen in the front parlor, whose needlepoint is dated the second half of the seventeenth century . — 1949