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Signed and dated 17 July 1738 Worked with a central vase with bearded mask and outspringing acanthus above a gadrooned and fluted spreading socle issuing dense flowers including tulips, peonies, roses, lilies, carnations and other flowers, on a brown ground and shown standing on an illusionistic ledge woven to the base with the inscription 'A..Y....Fecit Trallee July.17th 1738.', in a moulded mahogany slip frame, probably originally from a pole screen, minor areas of reweaving to the brown ground at the top 261/4 in. (67 cm.) high; 181/2 in. (47 cm.) wide PROVENANCE Bought from Norman Adams, March 1977. NOTES This firescreen panel evokes the Roman poet's Arcadia and concept of 'Ver Perpetuum' or everlasting spring. Venus's roses accompany a Pan-masked krater-vase overflowing with flowers. Displayed in a trompe l'oeil niche, it served like real 'bough pot' vases and those painted on chimneyboards to conceal the 18th century chimney-hearth, when not in use (M.R. Blacker, Flora Domestica, London, 2000, p. 59). SALESROOM NOTICE The stitched signature may be for a member of the Yielding family of Co. Kerry.