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406
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; convex moulding (top and sides surviving); scrolled protrusions above top corners; Stuart royal shield, crown, garter, supporters and motto; initials separated by crown.
Notes: The scrolled protrusions suggest a possible association with other firebacks with similar features.
Inscription: I R / HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
Arms: English Stuart royal - James I
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- convex (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the early 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.944 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
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629
Description: Arched rectangular shape with cavetto canted shoulders; wide fillet edging with cavetto moulding inside; within a baroque frame, the seated figure of an old man clasping his cloak, a smoking urn to his left.
Notes: Probably the allegorical figure of Winter.
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto-canted arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet and cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- allegorical
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the 18th century in France.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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667
Description: Armorial within complex ovolo moulded edging (top and sides); quartered shield, helm, crest and mantling; plain panel below.
Notes: The arms can be identified from the first four quarters on the memorial to Raffe Maynard, d.1613, in St Albans Cathedral; quarterly, 1, Maynard: argent, a chevron azure between three sinister hands couped at the wrist gules; 2, Filleigh: gules, a fess vairy between six crosses formy or; 3, Harris/Hawes/Hewish: gules fretty argent a canton of the second; 4, Lyons: argent a chevron sable between three lions dormant coward gules; the crest, a stag statant, is of Maynard. The Maynards, originally from Devon, were a large family in Rotherfield, and Richard Maynard (d.1619) had an interest in Old Mill, Mayfield, as well as in Birchden forge, and probably Hamsell furnace. A larger fireback with the same arms, and probably by the same pattern maker, can also be seen.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Maynard
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Rolvenden, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Ornate border series