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44
Description: Rectangular; astragal edging; simple diamond pattern covering whole plate, formed from evenly-spaced diagonal lines.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- objects
Manufactured: .
Current location: in private hands, Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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1233
Description: Rectangular shape; no edging; upper centre, initials 'HI'; lower centre, date '1795'.
Notes: Simple design with bold, well-carved characters.
Inscription: H I / 1795
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1795 in England.
Current location: in private hands Hook, Hampshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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388
Description: Rectangular, with canted top corners; twisted rope edging (top and sides only); ten shields of Ayloffe impaling Sulyard in three rows, 3-4-3; Ayloffe: sable, a lion rampant Or, collared gules, between three crosses formy of the second; Sulyard: argent, a chevron gules between three pheons inverted sable.
Notes: William Ayloffe (c1535-1584) of Hornchurch, Essex, Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, married (c1560) Jane, dau. of Sir Eustace Sulyard, of Runwell, Essex. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Arms: Ayloffe impaling Sulyard (William Ayloffe of Bretons, Hornchurch)
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- armorial
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: 1944.24.047 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Ayloffe series
- Personal armorial firebacks
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413
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging; standing figure of Abraham about to sacrifice a kneeling Isaac, Abraham's raised right hand holding a sword is retrained by an angel; behind Abraham is a ram; initials are placed in a triangle above behind and in front of the group; arched rectangular border with fillet edging and descending floral and fruit bunches on a ribbon, hanging from rings, foliate swirls at base; vases on rectangle shoulders and at top, between two putti
Notes: The initials appear to have been added subsequently.
Inscription: B / E A
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.946 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
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513
Description: Rectangular; complex (astragal & fillet/cavetto) moulded edging; initials across top, between split date.
Inscription: 16 WSG 98 [‘S’ reversed]
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal and fillet/cavetto (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- planklines
- text
Manufactured: in 1698 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Penshurst Place, Penshurst, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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722
Description: Canted rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); shield with recessed edges repeated seven times (3 and 4): a fess between three mullets of six points.
Notes: The arms are those of Courthope of Whiligh in Ticehurst; blazon: argent, a fess azure between three estoiles sable (two and one). Shown are molets of six points which have straight rays instead of (properly) estoiles which have wavy ones. However, the 1643/4 iron graveslab of David Barham of Snape, in Wadhurst church, has the same arms (also with molets instead of estoiles), which were those of his mother who was a Courthope.
Arms: Courthope, of Whiligh in Ticehurst
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Ticehurst, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Courthope arms series