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346
Description: Rectangular with arched rectangular shaped top joined by cavetto curves; astragal edging; shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: [around shield] HONY SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / [on motto scroll] AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners and round arch (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- text
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Ightham Mote, Ightham, Kent, England.
Museum number: 825513 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Sackville firebacks
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354
Description: Quasi-arched rectangular shaped; unique, cavetto moulded edging, which loops upon itself three times. A mythical salamander shown in the flames which legend states it is able to resist; behind is what appears to be a palm tree, on either side of which the date is stamped. Two plank-lines.
Notes: Whole pattern with added date; one of a series of firebacks where the number ‘1’ is hooked at both ends. Damage and subsequent repair to the bottom right corner has obliterated a letter 'M' seen on another casting; presumably part of 'IM'. A variant, at Lewes, is incorrectly dated 1550.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1650
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with ornate arch (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- planklines
- pictorial
- mythological
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1650 possibly at Brede Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley, Yorkshire, England.
Museum number: NT/ERH/M/40 (part of the National Trust museum group)
Citation: Schubert, H. R., 1957, 'A Forgery in Iron', Journal of the Iron & Steel Institute, 165, p. 125.
- Attached to series:
- Hooked '1' series
- Loop edged firebacks
- Brede group
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356
Description: Canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); bearded face stamp repeated in top corners and below inscription; date along top edge; initials split by date and slightly below.
Notes: The distinctive style of the ‘4’ in the date and the bearded mask stamp have also been noted on a fireback at Callow Farm, Dymock, Gloucestershire, associated with the operator of the Newent furnace.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: E 1641 M
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1641 probably at Elmbridge Furnace, Newent in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Warwickshire, England.
Museum number: 342876 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks
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357
Description: Stove side plate; ovolo moulded edging; upper panel, pictorial scene of Jesus and the woman of Samaria (John: 4), with inscription below; lower panel, two circular frames, each with a figure, male to the right, female to the left, decorative scroll work between.
Notes: Stove plates were often used as firebacks once the stoves had been replaced by more efficient ones.
Inscription: VON DEN FREWLEIN VON SAMARIA IOHAN 4
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- biblical
- architectural
- text
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Warwickshire, England.
(part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
- Woman of Samaria stoveplates
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358
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging on a broad fillet; standing on a ground with a peacock behind her, a classically-dressed figure of a female, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre in her right hand, her left hand across her chest; above her, swagged drapery; arched rectangular border with fillet edging; central scallop shell at the top with a descending arrangement of swirled and interlinked lines; at bottom centre, a cartouche bearing the letter ‘N’; on top, two mirrored serpents.
Notes: The figure is that of Hera/Juno. The pattern maker identified as ‘N’ is likely to have been working in collaboration with pattern makers whose fireback designs are identified with the initials, SHR and EB, and with the maker responsible for patterns made in 1724, some of which bore inscriptions in Welsh.
Inscription: N
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in England.
Current location: Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Warwickshire, England.
Museum number: 342886 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- N series
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
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1156
Description: Arched rectangular shape; stylised twisted rope edging; centred, 'C & G' above 'S' above '1929', all between four stylised rope saltires.
Notes: A twentieth century fireback designed and executed in a traditional form.
Inscription: C & G / S / 1929
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1929 in England.
Current location: Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England.
Museum number: 1545478 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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1225
Description: Arched rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); in arch, marquess's coronet above a monogram with date split either side.
Notes: The elaborate monogram has not been deciphered, but the fireback does not appear to be related to the Talbot family who owned Lacock throughout the 17th century.
Inscription: 16 [undeciphered monogram] 68
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- monogram
- text
Manufactured: in 1668 in England.
Current location: Lackock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England.
Museum number: 996713 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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360
Description: Arched rectangular shape; ovolo edging; Stuart royal arms of England (quarterly, 1st and 4th, France and England, 2nd Scotland and 3rd Ireland) with garter, crown, motto and supporters; initials either side of lion’s head; date either side of unicorn’s head.
Notes: The slightly awkward positioning of the date suggests it was added later.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: I R [Iacobus Rex] 16 04 / DEV ET MON DROIT
Arms: English Stuart royal - James I
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1604 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Scotney Castle, Lamberhurst, Kent, England.
Museum number: 791456 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Jacobean royal armorial firebacks
- Stuart royal armorial firebacks
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361
Description: Quasi-rectangular; twisted rope edging on top and sides; cavetto-moulded-edged rectangle top centre, enclosing date between initials; 17 shields of Ayloffe impaling Sulyard in three rows (5-6-6); Ayloffe: sable, a lion rampant Or, collared gules, between three crosses formy of the second; Sulyard: argent, a chevron gules between three pheons inverted sable.
Notes: William Ayloffe (c1535-1584) of Hornchurch, Essex, Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, married (c1560) Jane, dau. of Sir Eustace Sulyard, of Runwell, Essex. The initials 'CT' are likely to be those of Charles Tyler, a founder whose working life and that of his family have strong parallels with the occurrence of these firebacks.
Inscription: C.1.6 2.0.T
Arms: Ayloffe impaling Sulyard (William Ayloffe of Bretons, Hornchurch)
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1620 possibly at Hawkhurst Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Scotney Castle, Lamberhurst, Kent, England.
Museum number: 791898 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Ayloffe series
- Personal armorial firebacks
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362
Description: Rectangle; no edging; date just above centre; initials above date.
Notes: The disparity between the quality of the stamping of the date and initials may be because the date has been stamped from a single block. There are stylistic similarities with the memorial plate to John and Ann Luck, dated 1771, in Wadhurst church porch, Sussex.
Inscription: I H / 1776
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1776 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Scotney Castle, Lamberhurst, Kent, England.
Museum number: 791899 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks