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Description: Arched rectangular shape with fillet edging and a repeated line and concentric semi-circle design; wicker enclosure with gate at bottom, overlaid with a lion rampant surmounted by a crown.
Notes: The enclosure is the Garden of Holland (Hollandse Tuin) and the lion the badge of the States General of the Netherlands; on the shoulders of the plate, and on three other positions equally spaced around the arch, repeated small fleurs-d-lys.
Inscription: ...E HOV...
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- complex individual (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- text
- animals
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-17th century possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/71 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
- 'Dutch' Garden of Holland firebacks
