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1227
Description: Rectangular shape with ovolo-moulded edging; within the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a central shield of the arms of Spain: quarterly Castile and Leon, Aragon and Aragon-Sicily, with an escutcheon of Portugal; in base Austria, Burgundy ancient, Burgundy modern and Brabant with an escutcheon of Flanders impaling Tyrol; above, a crown; supporters: two golden lions rampant; below the shield, the date, 1595; above the crown, the inscription: Dominus mihi adiutor (the Lord is my helper).
Notes: The arms of King Philip II of Spain following the unification with Portugal, as used in the Spanish Netherlands
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: DOMINVS MIHI ADIVTOR
Arms: King Philip II of Spain (Spanish Netherlands)
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1595 possibly in the Ardennes area of Belgium.
Current location: Science Museum, Exhibition Road, Kensington & Chelsea, London, England.
Museum number: M.624.1926 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks