Firebacks

  1. 480

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    740 x 920 mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Arched rectangle; ovolo, egg-and-dart moulded edging; shield, helm, coronet, crest and mantling; curved inscription panel below shield.

    Notes: The heraldic devices on the shield, and the form of the helm and crest suggest this may be a continental achievement of arms; the style of the fireback is, however, is more characteristic of English types.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    Inscription: ... D HADRIANI ... EQVITE DOM DE HE.. / ... M.. ... ... [?]

    Arms: not known

    Manufactured: in the early-17th century .

    Current location: Maidstone Museum, St Faith's Street, Maidstone, Kent, England.

    (part of the Maidstone Museum museum group)

    Citation: Hodgkinson, J. S., 2010, British Cast-Iron Firebacks of the 16th to Mid-18th Centuries (Crawley, Hodgers Books).