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842
Description: Arched shape; cavetto-moulded edging invected on the inner edge; Tudor rose surmounted by a royal crown; monogram in bottom right corner.
Notes: The monogram, RN, is associated with the invected cavetto moulding; a recasting, replicating an earlier crack.
Inscription: RN
- Decoration tags:
- rounded arched (shape)
- scalloped cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- monogram
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the early- to mid-17th century in England.
Current location: English Heritage Store, Atcham Business Park, Atcham, Shropshire, England.
Museum number: EH ASC 4490 (part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- RN series
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
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844
Description: Arched rectangular central panel; fillet edging; pictorial scene of a cloaked figure, to the right, tempting a dog, to the left, with a tasty morsel; behind are the outlines of a door and window; arched rectangular border with fillet edging, the date along the bottom; down each side, a floral festoon; over the arch, the inscription, the initials split between each side of the main inscription; on top, floral scrolls.
Notes: The inscription translates as 'loyalty above gifts'; some castings omit the initials, NL, indicating that they were a subsequent addition. The illustration is derived from 'The thief and the dog', one of a series of engravings of Aesop's Fables by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: N / FIDES DONA SUPERAT / L // 1696
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- planklines
- pictorial
- allegorical
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in 1696 possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: English Heritage Store, Atcham Business Park, Atcham, Shropshire, England.
Museum number: EH ASC 4491 (part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' 1696 NL series
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295
Description: Five-facetted arched shape; ovolo-moulded edging comprising two separate lengths of moulding repeated to form sides and arch; shield of Hickman (per pale indented argent and azure) impaling Nevile (?gules a saltire argent) within repeated laurel leaves inside a scrolled cartouche; date top centre.
Notes: William Hickman of Old Hall, Gainsborough, 2nd Baronet (1629-82), married Elizabeth Neville of Mattersey, Nottinghamshire, c.1652. The multi-facetted arch calls to mind a series of firebacks cast in the Weald which are also associated with the Nevills (see 1589 series), although they are of earlier date.
Inscription: 1658
Arms: Hickman impaling Neville; Sir William Hickman
- Decoration tags:
- multi-facet arched (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 in England.
Current location: Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
(part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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355
Description: Rectangular joined to pediment by symmetrical scrolls; fillet edging with embattling inside; shield, helm, crest, supporters and mantling of the city of Bristol; date split by bottom of shield; inscription in an oval cartouche below shield.
Notes: Both '3's in the date are a substitution, with another casting suggesting an original date of 1614 or 1624. The pattern-maker was also responsible for carving royal coats of arms in three West Country churches and a small number of series of firebacks in the first quarter of the 17th century.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 33 / [ARMES] BRISTOLL
Arms: City of Bristol
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1633 possibly in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.
Museum number: 88278827 (part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Civic firebacks
- Bristol armorial series
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1246
Description: Low-arched shape within broad fillet edging marked with a repeated leaf pattern ascending toward the top; on an incised criss-cross field a Tudor royal shield, quarterly France Modern and England, supported by a stylised, scaly dragon and greyhound and surmounted by a crown, all resting on a two-stepped compartment with cavetto- and astragal-moulded edging at the top.
Notes: Pastiche 'Tudor' design by George Shaw of Saddleworth, Lancashire, c.1850, possibly intended to be passed off as genuine Tudor. Another casting in this form is in Cheetham's Library, Manchester. A variant exists without the leaf pattern on the edging and the 'scales' on the dragon. Firebacks of the same armorial design within a different, arched rectangular, edging are also known.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Tudor royal
- Decoration tags:
- rounded arched (shape)
- custom with repeated leaf pattern (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in the mid-19th century possibly in the Lancashire area of England.
Current location: Warkworth Castle, Warkworth, Northumberland, England.
(part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
- George Shaw series