Firebacks

Description: Canted rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); top centre, gothic panel of a symmetrical arrangement of tracery patterns with an inverted ogee arch on top incorporating two flowers; on each side, repeated possible front of a wrought-iron andiron or firedog with a horizontal bar, above which are quasi-leaf or flower forms; bottom centre, lozenge shaped outline with two protrusions on top.

Notes: The panel has been noted in two other firebacks and was probably derived from a dismantled wooden chest or hutch table, c.1500. Its gothic style belies the probable age of the fireback, such chests already being old when their parts might have been re-used.