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Description: Low arched rectangular shape; broad rebated fillet edging; stylised Tudor royal shield, crown and supporters (dragon and greyhound); Tudor rose in top left corner; portcullis in top right corner.
Notes: Pastiche 'Tudor' design by George Shaw of Saddleworth, Lancashire, c.1850, possibly intended to be passed off as genuine Tudor. A fireback of the same armorial design within a different, arched edging is at Wirkworth Castle, Northumberland (see no. 1246).
Arms: Tudor royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in the mid 19th century possibly in the Lancashire area of England.
Current location: Hever Castle, Hever, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- George Shaw series
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
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1246
Description: Low-arched shape within broad fillet edging marked with a repeated leaf pattern ascending toward the top; on an incised criss-cross field a Tudor royal shield, quarterly France Modern and England, supported by a stylised dragon and greyhound and surmounted by a crown, all resting on a two-stepped compartment with cavetto- and astragal-moulded edging at the top.
Notes: Pastiche 'Tudor' design by George Shaw of Saddleworth, Lancashire, c.1850, possibly intended to be passed off as genuine Tudor. Examples are also to be found in Lichfield Guildhall (without the leaf pattern on the edging and the 'scales' on the dragon) and Cheetham's Library, Manchester. Firebacks of the same armorial design within a different, arched rectangular, edging are known, an example being at Hever Castle, Kent.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Tudor royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched (shape)
- custom with repeated leaf pattern (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in the mid 19th century possibly in the Lancashire area of England.
Current location: Warkworth Castle, Warkworth, Northumberland, England.
(part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
- George Shaw series