Firebacks

In the Littlehampton Museum museum group

  1. 1272

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    710 x 740 mm

    Description: Arched rectangular shape with side pilasters; cavetto-moulded edging to the arch; quartered shield with an, off-centre, knight's helm, wreath and mantling, and crest of a cubit arm vested, or habited, cuffed and erased holding an arrow in bend sinister; the shield has, in the 1st quarter three lions rampant, in the 2nd a bend cotised, in the 3rd possibly a lion rampant, and in the 4th possibly a dragon rampant within a bordure indented; motto below the shield.

    Notes: From the style of the mantling the pattern carver may have also been responsible for other firebacks from the west Midlands or Welsh border area.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    Inscription: SVCH CAVSE I FIND

    Arms: Not known

    Manufactured: in the early- to mid-17th century in England.

    Current location: Littlehampton Museum, Manor Road, Littlehampton, West Sussex, England.

    Museum number: A263 (part of the Littlehampton Museum museum group)