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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:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1697 in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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1304
Description: Canted rectangular shape with inclined sides; cavetto-moulded edging (top and sides); horizontal fillet parallel to the top edge divided by two further fillets, in the centre the initials in capitals in triad, and at each end a lion rampant stamp facing inwards and inclined upwards towards the centre; below the lions, two inclined vertical fillets, parallel to the sides of the plate, each enclosing down the sides a double fleur-de-lys stamp and a flowerhead stamp repeated twice on each side and arranged alternately; in the panel below the initials, two different animal figures of indeterminate type, possibly monkeys.
Notes: The rampant lion, double fleur and flowerhead stamps have all been noted on other firebacks in a series identified on most backs with the initials I and B at the base of the plate. The initials are not present on this casting although the inclusion of I and B in the triad at the top could suggest that this fireback was personal to the founder and his wife. Of note are the impressions of the lions which overstamp the fillet below, indicating that they were placed after the fillet. Unlike the other backs in this series this example is undated. Wincanton Auctions, 24 Oct 2024, lot 540 (£35).
Inscription: IBE [triad]
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- heraldic
- text
- animals
- plants
Manufactured: in the late-17th to early-18th century in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Crawley, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- IB series
