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Description: Arched rectangular shaped central panel with bead edging; arched rectangular border with bead edging; fructal and floral festoons suspended on ribbons with two putti at the top and two on each side; in the left and right bottom corners, the initials 'HH' and 'S' respectively; at the bottom, a central cartouche with date (indistinctly), between floral swags; on top, twin spirals between descending floral festoons.
Notes: A border panel, without the central pictorial panel.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HH S
Manufactured: in 1665 in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Antique-fireback.com (www.firebacks.net/) 21 Nederstraat, Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' HHS series
- Base boards