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1058
Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulded edging with an astragal inside; baroque-style shield of Montagu impaling Wriothesley.
Notes: Ralph Montagu (1638-1709), afterwards Earl of Montagu and later Duke, married Elizabeth Percy, née Wriothesley, daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton, in 1673. She died in 1690; thus the fireback dates to between 1673 and 1690; Blazon: (Montagu) Argent, three lozenges conjoined in fess gules, a border sable; (Wriothesley) Azure, a cross or between four falcons close argent.
Arms: Montagu impaling Wriothesley
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late-17th century probably at Sowley Furnace, Beaulieu in England.
Current location: Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Wriothesley firebacks