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851
Description: Rectangular with mirrored floriate scrolled top; simulated overlapping tile edging at sides, with fillet bottom edge; a mythical salamander in the form of a dog with an arrow-shaped tongue, standing among flames; a stapled scroll inside the left and right edges.
Notes: This fireback was used to create a composite fireback design on a plate at Rivers Farmhouse, Ardingly.
- Decoration tags:
- quasi-rectangular (shape)
- simulated overlapping tile (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- mythological
- animals
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location:.
Citation: Lloyd, N., 1925, 'Domestic Ironwork I', Architectural Review, 58, pp. 58-67.
- Attached to series:
- Stapled scroll series
- Brede group
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221
Description: Rectangular; plain plate; inscription in capitals split between top corners, ‘I’ crossed.
Notes: The letters are likely to have been formed by tracing their shape in the casting sand using a pointed implement.
Inscription: I R
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- individual letters
- text
Manufactured: in the early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Buxted, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Initials only firebacks
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672
Description: Rectangular with pediment; ovolo moulded edging inside top of pediment and inside top and sides of rectangle; central talbot crest within wreath and eight-pointed star, between four fleurs-de-lys.
Notes: The wreath and talbot crest are identical to those on a 1584 fireback in the Victoria & Albert Museum; one of the ‘Royal’ series.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with pediment (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Middle House Hotel, High Street, Mayfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series
- Fleur-de-lys stamp types
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1086
Description: Fragment; rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; image of an iron grate with barred front and integral andiron with iron or brass disc.
Notes: A unique example; it is not certain how the mould was formed, whether by impressing an actual grate or carving a pattern with the image of a grate.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Outwood, Surrey, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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1103
Description: Rectangular shape; double astragal edging (top and sides); arrangement of repeated square stamps with indented saltires: three down each side, five in a diamond pattern top centre.
Notes: The lines around the edge may well have been formed from impressing a straight edge of some sort.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- double astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Authentic Reclamation, Lymden Lane, Ticehurst, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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1069
Description: Quasi-arched shape with forward-facing 'wings', which splay outwards towards the base where each has been pierced with a small hole as if to insert a rod from one side to the other; the 'wings' curve to follow the shape of the main panel but curl outwards at the top; central panel with stylised tree decoration surmounted with a crown between two inward-facing animals, possibly a lion and unicorn; beneath the tree, a partially illegible inscription in relief.
Notes: This unusual casting was probably formed in an open box mould. Only a very small number of such castings are known. Depth 200mm. A similar fireback, noted at Poynings in Sussex, was illustrated in The Connoisseur, vol 41 (1915), p. 221; it too had a crown supported by a lion and unicorn on the top, and a tree with an illegible inscription below.
Inscription: SYLVESTR..[illegible]
- Decoration tags:
- free-standing (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in the late 17th to early 18th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Free-standing firebacks