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826
Description: Canted rectangular shape with moulded edging (top and sides) overlain by a length of twisted rope repeated six times; central vertical line formed of twisted rope, crossed with rope upper centre, with rope laid in a diamond pattern around the cross; lower centre, two irregular v-shapes formed of rope, one on each side of the vertical; shield shaped stamp with a fleur de lys repeated twice each side, upper left and right.
Notes: The twin V arrangement may have apotropaic significance and the cross above them having a Christian symbolism; the base board appears to have had a moulded edge, with rope lengths applied over part of the moulding after the board had been pressed into the casting bed; a sketch of this fireback was made by J. Starkie Gardner c.1891 and is in his collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Archive of Art and Design (AAD/2014/8).
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope over moulding (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- apotropaic
- objects
Manufactured: in the late-16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Burwash, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
- Rope design firebacks