Firebacks

589mm wide

  1. 572

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    589 x 825 mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Arched rectangular shape with bead-on-fillet edging; pictorial scene of St Michael the Archangel fighting the Devil; on top, a pomegranate with serpents descending down each side of the arch; a pomegranate on top of each shoulder of the plate.

    Notes: Notable for the absence of a border and the lack of a background to the scene.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    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/63 (part of the National Trust museum group)