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Description: Rectangular with arched, mirrored scrolls on top and central scallop shell; fillet edging; in a grove with two putti above, blowing trumpets, to the left, a naked female figure seated against a table, pointing at three children to the right, on a rock; at the bottom, narrow panel with indistinct decoration.
Notes: The scene is probably from classical mythology, but has not been identified.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with ornate arch (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in England.
Current location: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HATMP002269 (part of the Brighton Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Late pictorial series (all)
- Late pictorial series 2