Firebacks

In the The Museum of Cambridge museum group

  1. 917

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    600 x 760 mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Rectangular with detached pediment joined by S-curves; cavetto-moulded edging; shield, helm, bird crest and mantling, with date, 1635, split either side of crest; bottom of casting missing due to corrosion.

    Notes: Tentatively identified as the arms of Brooke or Broke of Lapley, Staffordshire (blazon: chequy argent and sable, impaling a chevron between three estoiles); this fireback, or its pattern, have been used as a stamp on another fireback with a later date and initials added separately (see no. 831).

    Inscription: 16 35

    Arms: poss. Brooke of Staffordshire

    Manufactured: in 1635 in England.

    Current location: The Museum of Cambridge, 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

    (part of the The Museum of Cambridge museum group)