Firebacks

  1. 562

    pet-m-56.jpg
    373 x 742 mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; main panel, pictorial scene of Adam and Eve with, between them, the Tree of Life, bearing fruit, entwined by a serpent; bottom panel indistinct.

    Notes: A much worn plate.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    Manufactured: in the mid- to late-16th century possibly in the Wallonia area of Belgium.

    Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.

    Museum number: NT/PET/M/56 (part of the National Trust museum group)

    Citation: Driesch, K. von den , 1990, Handbuch der Ofen-, Kamin- und Takenplatten im Rheinland (Cologne, Rheinland-Verlag).