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Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulding within a flanged edge; floriate arch above a female figure with a child in her left arm and another by her right side, initials split by the group; below a simulated rope-twist fillet, elaborate floriate cartouche containing the word, CHARITAS.
Notes: A late stove-plate, illustrated in von den Driesch p.484.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: G S / CHARITAS
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- allegorical
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-17th century in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 890.1901 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
