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76
Description: Rectangular with ‘portico’ arch; cavetto edging; two-handled vase, flower stems on each side entwined round handles; flowers emerging from top of vase; base of vase overlaps the edging.
Notes: One of a varied group of small firebacks with bold, simple designs and cavetto edging; formerly in the possession of Gertrude Jekyll, Munstead Wood, near Godalming, Surrey.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with triangular arch (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Guildford Museum, Guildford, Surrey, England.
Museum number: S.7129 (part of the Guildford Museum museum group)
Citation: Jekyll, G., 1903, Old West Surrey, London, Longmans.
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
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481
Description: Rectangular; cavetto edging all round; seated lion on right, its tail rising above its back and its head turned to face the viewer; a seated sheep on the left; at the bottom, a plain rectangular extension panel; date split across top.
Notes: Intended to represent the saying, ‘The lion shall lie down with the lamb’, a popular misquotation of Isaiah 11: 6.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- extension panels
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Maresfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
- Old Testament & Apocrypha firebacks
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861
Description: Canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); top centre, date.
Inscription: 1697
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1697 in England.
Current location: in private hands, Checkendon, Oxfordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
