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A large cast-iron ‘Dutch’ style fireback,
nineteenth century, to a late seventeenth century northern European pattern,
the arms of William, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Queen of England, raised aloft by cherubs; the central field flanked by ornate pilasters, the plate surmounted by scallops and dolphins,
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although believed to be a later re-cast, this is a very rare example of this pattern- the original probably cast in Germany for the Dutch market in the 1690s; the arms are of William and Mary as Prince and Princess of Orange, rather than King and Queen of England,
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