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Description: Rectangular with superimposed arch; embattled, cavetto moulded edging, with the top edge of the rectangle interrupted; shield, garter, crown, supporters and motto of the English Royal house of Stuart; rose and thistle plants above lion and unicorn supporters respectively; initials split by crown; date below garter.
Notes: A different version is at Newick Park, Sussex (no. 502).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: I R / HONI S OIT QVI MAL Y ..ENSE / 16 19
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- embattled cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1619 in England.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 48.354/85 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
