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235
Description: Fragment; canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); repeated scroll strip stamp along each side; date, top centre; a fleur-de-lys stamp repeated three times vertically down left side, probably mirrored on right side (top fleur visible).
Notes: Use of the same stamps indicates a common source with a variant dated 1692.
Inscription: 1694
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1694 possibly in the South Wales area of Wales.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 61.49/3 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- St Fagans series
- Date only firebacks
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968
Description: Rectangular; truncated egg and dart moulded edging on top and left side; top right of centre, date in individual over-pressed stamps; initials in over-pressed stamps centred below date.
Notes: A rare use of egg and dart moulding used as separate edging, presumably derived from redundant domestic moulding or furniture.
Inscription: 1637 / H V
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- egg and dart (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1637 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Cowden, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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486
Description: Rectangular with 5-facetted arch; twisted rope edging; centre top, rectangular stamp, over-pressed, with crown above initials in bottom corners; diamond shaped stamp with fleur-de-lys repeated each side of crown, both over-pressed; spillage blemish below left fleur.
Notes: Notable for the large size of the fleur-de-lys stamp; this casting differs from another (q.v. 1164) in the placement of the stamps.
Inscription: E R
- Decoration tags:
- multi-facetted arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- royal
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Mayfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Large diamond fleur series
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501
Description: Arched rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; central crest of a gryphon's head couped, its wings displayed; above, the initials, the 'S' above the 'P's; below, the date.
Notes: The crest is likely to be that of Peter Short of Lindfield, Sussex, who married Philadelphia Burrell in 1704.
Inscription: PSP / 173...
Arms: Short of Lindfield
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 18th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Newick, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1730s-40s, date & initial series 2
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575
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cavetto-moulded edging; on each side a column of small overlapping leaves above a pedestal with a single acanthus leaf; issuing from the top of each column two ribbons, in figure-of-eight with grenade terminals, fly across the arch; within an arched rectangular central panel with bead edging three naked children disport about a swag of fruit, with a central pomegranate, suspended from the top of each column; one figure sits on the top, facing right, the other two hang symmetrically from below, with mirrored swirls behind them; along the base is a line of acanthus leaves; on top a sea serpent is curled on each end.
Notes: Another version of the fireback, probably by the same pattern-maker, has a slightly different design.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- mythological
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the late 17th century in England.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/66 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Carolean 'Dutch' series
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1164
Description: Rectangular with 5-facetted arch; twisted rope edging; centre top, rectangular stamp, over-pressed, with crown above initials in bottom corners; diamond shaped stamp with fleur-de-lys repeated each side of crown, both over-pressed.
Notes: Notable for the large size of the fleur-de-lys stamp; this casting differs from another (q.v. 486) in the placement of the stamps.
Inscription: E R
- Decoration tags:
- multi-facetted arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location:.
- Attached to series:
- Large diamond fleur series