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590
Description: Quasi-arched rectangular shape, semi-circular protrusions on top corners; cavetto-moulded edging; two mirrored scrolls inside arch; a phoenix in flames, its wings displayed and inverted.
Notes: A variant bears the date, 1650, and the initials, IM; a loop normally at the top is absent.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular with two arched extensions (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- mythological
- animals
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century possibly at Brede Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Ham House, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Museum number: 1139821 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- IM series
- Hooked '1' series
- Brede group
- Phoenix firebacks
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648
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with arch and bead-on-fillet edging; pictorial representation of a popinjay, or parrot, perched on a ring suspended by a ribbon from a bow, the bird is clutching an olive twig, other sprigs are below; arched rectangular border with arch and fillet edging; mirrored festoons of flowers and fruit suspended from roses, scrolled foliage at the bottom; on top, central scallop shell between descending dolphins.
Notes: The parrot on the ring perch is a popular design on Dutch firebacks.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Eastgate House, High Street, Rochester, Kent, England.
Museum number: A3491 (part of the Rochester Guildhall Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Bird on perch firebacks
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
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1094
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); top centre, crowned Tudor royal shield between a lion passant on the right and a lion passant guardant sinister on the left; in each top corner a crowned four-petal rose, below which, to the right, a left-facing 'imp' with both arms lowered; below the armorial, a crowned shield bearing initials, KH, in Lombardic lettering, above a fleur-de-lys; a much-corroded imp figure may be below the right-hand lion.
Notes: A heavily corroded variant of a type bearing Henrician heraldic elements.
Arms: Tudor royal arms of England
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Smallhythe Place, Small Hythe Road, Tenterden, Kent, England.
Museum number: 1117950 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Royal series