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273
Description: Rectangular with twisted rope edging top and sides; central arch with twisted rope edging; date in arch (8 with flattened top); initials repeated in top corners.
Notes: An unusually large plate to have such simple decoration.
Inscription: 1648 / TK TK
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1648 in England.
Current location: in private hands, Dorton, Buckinghamshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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1131
Description: Arched rectangular shaped central panel with 'nutshell' edging; pictorial: Mercury in his chariot drawn by two birds (possibly ravens) across the clouds, his caduceus held aloft; above are clouds, below is a landscape with plants; arched rectangular shaped border with fillet edging, a scallop shell top centre with descending symmetrical arrangement of vine and acanthus leaves and tendrils; the monogram, SHR, bottom centre; on top is a symmetrical design of scrolled floral tendrils. One vertical plankline right of centre.
Notes: The design is based on a personification of the planet Mercury in 'Planetarum effectus et eorum in signis zodiaci', by Marten de Vos (1585). The holes were for fixing to a grate.
Inscription: SHR
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- allegorical
- monogram
- animals
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the late-17th to early-18th century in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- SHR series
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
- De Vos Planets series
