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210
Description: Quasi-arched rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; fluid curving, double ovolo arch with a pair of putti holding looped ribbons; a lion rampant holding a cartouche, between two pilasters, each surmounted by a dragon’s head.
Notes: A simple decorative device has replaced the customary allegorical or classical scene.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- quasi-arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- animals
Manufactured: in the late-17th century in England.
Current location: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HA105020 (part of the Brighton Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Late pictorial series (all)
- Late pictorial series 5
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521
Description: Rectangular with arched, mirrored scrolls on top and central scallop shell; fillet edging; Pan, with a goat behind, trees to left and right; a putto above right; at the bottom, a separate rectangular panel with mirrored scrolled foliage.
Notes: A scene apparently unrelated to a specific classical narrative, and without the customary decorated border.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- quasi-arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- animals
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in England.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/75 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Late pictorial series (all)
- Late pictorial series 2
