Firebacks

Description: Armorial within complex ovolo moulded edging on all sides; two plank lines; the achievement is distinguished by the elaborately festooned mantling, the whole resting on a boat-shaped compartment.

Notes: The arms are of an esquire, and the crest - on a chapeau a wyvern, wings elevated and tail nowed, ducally gorged - matches that of the Trevor family. The shield is probably of impaled arms, i.e. those of a husband on the left and wife on the right. The husband's arms include several quarters with lions rampant, which were often a feature of the arms of Welsh families (of which the Trevors were one). The first quarter of the wife's arms is also of a wyvern, but the arms as a whole have not be identified. They have been variously, but incorrectly, attributed to John Trevor who married Elizabeth Morley, née Clarke, to Lord Dacre (a descendant of John Trevor), and to Col. Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (peers' arms have supporters). The distinctive shape is seen in similar form on several other armorial firebacks from the mid-16th to 17th centuries, suggesting a continuity of pattern making, if not the same pattern maker. Many copies of this fireback exist.

Copies of this fireback are known.

Arms: Trevor