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Description: Rectangular; flanged edge; central pictorial panel illustrating Mordecai arriving before King Ahasuerus, Haman hanging from the gallows behind; two floral side panels, at the top of each a monogram within a cartouche: on the left KS, on the right H?D.
Notes: Stoveplate; the scene illustrates a scene from Esther 7: 10 and 8: 1. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: KS H[?]D
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- architectural
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.040 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
- Esther stoveplates
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729
Description: Rectangular; flanged edge; central pictorial panel illustrating Mordecai arriving before King Ahasuerus, Haman hanging from the gallows behind; two floral side panels, at the top of each a monogram within a cartouche: on the left KS, on the right H?D; plain extension panel at bottom.
Notes: Stoveplate; the scene illustrates a scene from Esther 7: 10 and 8: 1.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: KS H[?]D
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- extension panels
- pictorial
- biblical
- architectural
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.112-1953 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
- Esther stoveplates
