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Description: Arched rectangle; arch with egg and dart, ovolo edging, resting on rectangle shoulders and sides with triple fillet edging, a single fillet edged panel beneath; bottom panel, guilloche pattern of 12; main panel: shield, helm, crest, coronet and mantling of the Wynter/Wintour family of Lydney, Gloucestershire; the initials above the date, both split by the helm and coronet; on either side of the shield, Ionic pilasters; above the rectangle shoulders, a scrolled bracket each side, supporting the arch.
Notes: Wynter: Sable, a fess ermine, in chief a crescent for difference; crest: out of a ducal coronet, or, a cubit arm in armour erect, proper, garnished of the first, in the gauntlet three ostrich-feathers. The arms are likely to be those of Sir John Wynter, who owned several furnaces in the Forest of Dean. Formerly at Watts House, Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, and before that at The Priory, Taunton.
Inscription: I W / 16 30
Arms: Winter/Wintour of Lydney, Gloucestershire
- Decoration tags:
- quasi-arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo, egg and dart (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1630 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Horniman Museum, 100 London Road, Forest Hill, London, England.
Museum number: 6.249 (part of the Horniman Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks