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Description: Rectangular central panel with bead edging all round, pictorial representation of the Annunciation by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, the angel carries a lily, Mary kneels at a desk, between them is a basket, above them a dove descends from clouds amid sunbeams, to the left is an arch, in the centre a bed, and to the right a window and a canopy; above the panel is a bead-edged arch with a central scallop shell and a floral swag suspended from scrolls; arched rectangular shaped border with fillet edging, a cascade of leaves and fruit (inc. apples, grapes, pears and pomegranates) descending from a wreath, at the base two cartouches conjoined by a scallop shell and containing the inscription; on top a scallop shell between two dolphins.
Notes: Whole pattern. A common fireback design originating in the Siegerland of north Germany and made for the Dutch market. A good clear casting. The illustration is probably drawn from V. Solis, 'Biblische Figuren'.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: ANNO 1667
Manufactured: in 1667 in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Bateman's, Burwash, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 761056 (part of the National Trust museum group)
Citation: Herskamp, W, 2007, Die Eiserne Bibel (Helios, Aachen).
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
- New Testament firebacks