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1232
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging on top and sides; date placed slightly right of centre near top.
Notes: A similar fireback with slightly different proportions has the same date using the same numerals.
Inscription: 1679
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1679 Wealden series
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1233
Description: Rectangular shape; no edging; upper centre, initials 'HI'; lower centre, date '1795'.
Notes: Simple design with bold, well-carved characters.
Inscription: H I / 1795
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1795 in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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324
Description: Rectangular with two-stepped top; undefined edging; in arch, stamp formed of a talbot statant guardant upon a wreath; date below crest; vertical carved billet stamped three times, the centre one higher than the other two, between the initials, below each pair of which is a cross stamp.
Notes: The talbot crest is seen on other firebacks indicating a common source; from a drawing in report 2553 of the Domestic Buildings Research Group (Surrey). The fireback is obscured behind a stove.
Inscription: 16 30 / IM EM
- Decoration tags:
- stepped (shape)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1630 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Horne, Surrey, England.
- Attached to series:
- Talbot crest series
- Stepped firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks
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1003
Description: Large plain arched rectangular fireback with astragal edging on the top and sides.
Notes: Exceptionally large fireback, finely cast.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
Manufactured: in the late 18th to early 19th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Base boards
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327
Description: Arched rectangular shaped central panel with open-bud edging; pictorial: Venus in her chariot drawn by doves, with her child, Cupid; a heron flies away to the left; above are swagged curtains and a pair of tassels, below is a landscape; arched rectangular shaped border with fillet edging, a scallop shell top centre with symmetrical arrangement of vine and acanthus leaves and tendrils; the monogram, SHR, bottom centre; above is a symmetrical design of scrolled floral tendrils.
Notes: The design is derived from a personification of the planet Venus in 'Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci', by Marten de Vos (1585); the flying heron has been copied from a print by Wenceslaus Hollar c.1658. The theft, in 1699, from a Thames-side warehouse of several firebacks, included '6 of Venus in a Chariot with Doves', which is likely to refer to this type (Post Boy 11-14 Nov. 1699).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: SHR
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- mythological
- allegorical
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the late 17th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- SHR series
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
- De Vos Planets series
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328
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging; pictorial scene of a figure in Roman dress, holding a large sword, and holding the head of a bearded man in his left hand; below to the left, a naked, decapitated body; above the winged face of a putto between mirrored, scrolled foliage; arched rectangular border with fillet edging; flowers in chain under the arch and down the sides; at the bottom, swirled foliage; on top, a crown between fruit triads.
Notes: Perseus holding the severed head of the Medusa; possibly adapted from a drawing by Crispijn de Passe the elder (1564-1637). Similarities in the design and execution of the pattern suggest a common source with contemporary English firebacks.
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- humans
Manufactured: in the early 18th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
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329
Description: Arched rectangular shape; simulated twisted rope edging (top & sides); central, symmetrical arrangement of a fleur-de-lys between two diamond stamps with two small cross-cut squares below, and a triad of dots outside; above, a haphazard arrangement of date, at top, above the initials, with a rose and crown to the left, and another fleur to the right.
Notes: Almost certainly an altered copy of a similar fireback dated 1613, some of the features of which have remained.
Inscription: 1637 / ILE
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- simulated rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
Manufactured: in 1637 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Diamond series
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330
Description: Rectangular; plain edge; top centre, ring between repeated lion's head between repeated narrow human figure with folded arms standing on a bracket; below each figure, a small bracket.
Notes: The figures are indistinct and are disproportionately small for the size of the firebacks; from Isfield Place 1921.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- animals
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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331
Description: Rectangular; no edging; inscription evenly spaced along top, sans serif lettering.
Inscription: IS D T IS
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Initials only firebacks
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332
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cavetto moulded edging; top centre within arch, initials above date.
Notes: Plain elegant fireback from a late series, probably cast in the south east of England. The crack emanating from the top right corner of the fireback seems to be a weakness on all the recorded examples, and may have caused by thinness of the base board at that point.
Inscription: TW / 1852
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1852 in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1850s series
- Date & initials firebacks