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790
Description: Rectangular with arched rectangular shaped top joined by cavetto curves; astragal edging; shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720; many different firebacks exist, all with precisely the same armorial stamp.
Inscription: [around shield] HONY SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / [on motto scroll] AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto-canted arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early 18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Hancox, Whatlington, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Personal armorial firebacks
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1146
Description: Canted rectangular shape; astragal edging with repeated fleurs-de-lys inside top and side edges; figure of St George impaling a dragon to the left with a lance over an undulating ground, with a kneeling figure above a sheep to the right.
Notes: The mould for this unusual fireback may have been formed using a redundant carved, medieval wooden panel, perhaps from a church. Wilkinson's Auctioneers, Doncaster, 24 June 2018, lot 132.
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the 16th century in England.
Current location:, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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802
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; astragal edging (top and sides); mainly symmetrical vine arrangement, emerging from a vase, some fronds ending in an eagle’s head, other in leaves; at top of arch, initials ‘HB’ split by date (reversed) with an additional ‘I’; below, initials ‘AIS’ (reversed).
Notes: Two planklines; ‘HB’ refers to Henry Bell, who acquired Rake Manor, Witley, in 1592. ‘AIS’ refers to Anthony Smith, his nephew and heir, and his wife, Joan (née Hore); the form of the date is confused by the addition of an ‘I’.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: H I0361B / AIS
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in 1630 possibly at Witley Park furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Rake Manor, Witley, Surrey, England.
Citation: Giuseppi, M. S., 1903, 'Rake in Witley [etc.]', Surrey Archaeological Collections, 18, pp. 11-60.
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks