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Description: Rectangular with a square projection middle top; castellated top edging; top centre, stylised Calvary; upper section: pictorial scene, centre, house with tiled roof, windows, and chimney at each end, paths leading from house; left, possible forge building with four chimneys and three water wheels, and adjacent furnace stack?; above, shed with lean-to, barrow, and wheel structure, all between trees; right, figure of a man running towards the house, unidentified objects between trees; lower section: plain panel with central triple-grooved horizontal line.
Notes: A striking and unusual fireback with a scene suggesting a connection with iron-making. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with square arch (shape)
- castellated (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- humans
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.045 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks