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525
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging; pictorial scene of two putti bent over a central anvil, with a third putto above; below are martial symbols (cannon, banners etc.); in the arch the word 'PAX', and in the shoulders of the panel, the date in two parts; arched rectangular boreder with fillet edging, and foliage draped from the top; on top, a pomegranate to which ascends a serpent on each side, with a further pomegranate on each shoulder of the plate.
Notes: The scene may be intended to represent the infant Vulcan.
Inscription: PAX / 16 79
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- mythological
- text
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in 1679 possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/79 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
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605
Description: Rectangular with ovolo-moulded edging; elaborate symmetrical rococo design framing a pictorial representation of an old man and two young women.
Notes: Carpentier (p.116) ascribes this design to Fontaine's fable of Les Oies de frere Philippe - Brother Philip's Geese.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- allegorical
- humans
Manufactured: in the 18th century in France.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
Citation: Carpentier, H., 1912, Plaques de Cheminées (Paris, published by the author).
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
