Firebacks

Description: Quasi-'Dutch' shape; no edging; pictorial scene of a figure, with arms raised, in a chariot, a boar escaping, pursued by a hound, on the right; below, a figure crouched over a supine figure; at the top the face of a putto, possibly Cupid, above scrolled leaves; above right are trees; other details obscure.

Notes: The scene appears to depict Venus at the death of Adonis, who was killed by a boar. Almost certainly a copy, hence the lack of definition, the scene combines elements from various pictorial representations, Venus being seen in her chariot with another figure crouched over Adonis's body.