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Description: Quasi-arched rectangular shape, semi-circular protrusions on top corners; cavetto-moulded edging; two mirrored scrolls inside arch; a phoenix in flames, its wings displayed and inverted.
Notes: A variant bears the date, 1650, and the initials, IM; a loop normally at the top is absent.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular with two arched extensions (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- mythological
- animals
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century possibly at Brede furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Ham House, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Museum number: NT/HAM/XX/300 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- IM series
- Hooked '1' series
- Brede group
- Phoenix firebacks