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Description: Arched rectangular central panel, bead edging, female figure, her right arm raised, sitting on a bull; arched rectangular border, fillet edging, swags of fruit bunches suspended from ribbon, inscription below central panel; on top, symmetrical floral swirls and flowers; plain panel at bottom.
Notes: The image is of Europa being carried away to Crete by Zeus disguised as a bull.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 NDW 97
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- monogram
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in 1697 in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HA105015 (part of the Brighton Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' NDW series
