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1193
Description: Arched rectangular shape with a 'flame' on each shoulder and a broken one on top of the arch; fillet and cavetto-moulded edging; lower centre, shield with impaled arms, dexter two bars in high relief, sinister a crowned lion rampant, all in front of a foliate cartouche terminating in mirrored swirls below the shield; above, a beaded coronet; in the arch, the date split either side of mirrored foliate swags suspended from a bow and from a flower in each shoulder, with a short central vertical swag above the coronet.
Notes: A fireback in high relief with an inserted date.
Inscription: 16 62
Arms: not known
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- fillet and cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1662 in France.
Current location: English Salvage Ltd, North Road, Leominster, Herefordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks