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526
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead on fillet edging; suspended from the top, by a ribbon, a ring with a popinjay, or parrot perched thereon, biting a twig in its right claw; below left is a seated child, and in the bottom corners the initial and monogram; around this panel is an arched rectangular border with fillet edging, at the top of which is the word, HOLLANDIA, between scrolls, with swags of fruit hung on ribbons suspended from roses down each side; at the bottom, a motto scroll bearing the inscription, ANNO 16 ...; on top, a central scallop shell between two dolphins.
Notes: A common design among firebacks produced in Germany for the Dutch market.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HOLLANDIA / H HS / ANNO 16 ...
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- allegorical
- monogram
- text
- animals
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-17th century in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/70 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Bird on perch firebacks
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658
Description: Canted rectangular shape; stepped fillet edging; indistinct pictorial scene of two men on the prow of a sailing ship, their arms in the air, passing a naked figure, arms also in the air.
Notes: Possibly a representation of Odysseus and one of the Sirens.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- stepped fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- humans
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in France.
Current location: in private hands, Rolvenden, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
