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Description: Rectangular with two mirrored scrolls on top, a lion’s face between; ogee-moulded edging; central pilaster with vine scrolling, Corinthian capital, a diamond on the pedestal; on either side, an arched alcove with fillet edging, each with a halberdier in mid-17th century clothes, their feet pointing to the middle.
Notes: A more common version has different edging and a pattern-maker’s mark. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with ornate arch (shape)
- cyma reversa/ogee (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- architectural
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid-17th century possibly at Brede Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.064 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Brede group
