Firebacks

Description: Rectangular with pediment raised on inverted consoles; fillet edging, ovolo-moulded in the pediment; shield, garter, helm, mantling, crest of a lion surmounting a chapeau, and motto cartouche with obliterated text; on each side, an extension panel with a vertical guilloche pattern.

Notes: One of several firebacks, all varying in size, framing style and moulding, with stylistic features in common and almost certainly the work of the same pattern maker, who was also responsible for carving royal coats of arms in several West Country churches. The presence of the chapeau, or Cap of Maintenance, is unusual on arms of this period, it being more common on medieval achievements.

Copies of this fireback are known.

Arms: English Stuart royal