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491
Description: Armorial; one plank line; shield, supporters, helm, crest and garter of the Sackville family: quarterly or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: The arms of Thomas Sackville (1527-1608), created 1st Baron Buckhurst in 1567 and invested Knight of the Garter in 1589. He was MP for East Grinstead. He was created 1st Earl of Dorset in 1604; the back therefore dates between 1589 and 1604.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI ... MAL Y PEN ...
Arms: Sackville, Baron Buckhurst
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Michelham Priory, Arlington, East Sussex, England.
(part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Butterfield, W. R., 1916, 'Old Wealden Firebacks', The Connoisseur, 46, pp. 197-209.
- Attached to series:
- Ornate border series
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Sackville firebacks
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498
Description: Arched plate; ovolo moulding edging; shield, supporters, coronet, helm, crest and motto of Viscount Montague; quarterly Browne, Albini, Fitzalan, Fitzalan of Clare, Warren, Maltravers, Nevill, Montagu, Monthermer, Inglethorpe, Burghe, Delapole, Bradeston, Tiptoft, Charleton and Kent (Plantagenet); supporters: two bears collared and chained; the crest: an eagle, the wings elevated and displayed.
Notes: The arms of either the 2nd (Anthony-Maria Browne, succ. 1592-1629) or 3rd viscount (Francis Browne succ. 1629-1682) - the 1st viscount was a Knight of the Garter and no garter is shown; the style of the modelling bears similarities to that on the 1618 series of firebacks and may be the work of the same pattern-maker.
Inscription: VERITATE DUCE [Be led by Truth]
Arms: Viscount Montague
- Decoration tags:
- arched (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in England.
Current location: Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex, England.
Citation: Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
Citation: Gardner, J. S., 1898, 'Iron Casting in the Weald', Archaeologia, 56, 1, pp. 133-164.
- Attached to series:
- Cowdray firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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499
Description: Arched rectangle; dentil ovolo-moulded edging; shield, supporters, coronet, helm, crest, mantling and motto of Viscount Montague; quarterly Browne, Albini, Fitzalan, Fitzalan of Clare, Warren, Maltravers, Nevill, Montagu, Monthermer, Inglethorpe, Burghe, Delapole, Bradeston, Tiptoft, Charleton and Kent (Plantagenet); supporters: two bears collared and chained; the crest: an eagle, the wings elevated and displayed.
Notes: The arms of either the 2nd (Anthony-Maria Browne, succ. 1592-1629) or 3rd viscount (Francis Browne succ. 1629-1682) - the 1st viscount was a Knight of the Garter and no garter is shown.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: VERITATE DUCE [Be led by Truth]
Arms: Viscount Montague
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- dentil ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in England.
Current location: Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Cowdray firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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546
Description: Rectangular; ovolo edging; shield, helm, crest, mantling and motto of the Merchant Taylors’ Company: Argent a Pavilion Imperial Purple garnished Or lined Ermine between two Mantles also Imperial Purple lined Ermine on a chief Azure a Lion passant guardant Or.
Notes: Arms were re-granted to the Company in 1586; the excrescences on the helm and shield are probably the result of splashes caused when pouring the iron into the mould from too great a height.
Inscription: CONCORDIA PARVAE RES CRESCUNT [In Harmony Small Things Grow]
Arms: Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/101 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Livery company firebacks
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547
Description: Rectangular with flanged edging; upper rectangular panel with cyma recta edging; pictorial scene of the Marriage at Cana; lower rectangular panel with fillet edging; three circular medallions with twin, concentric fillet edges, the left one with the bust of male, the right one with the bust of a female and the centre one with a floral design.
Notes: The scene is from the New Testament - John 2.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/103 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
- Marriage at Cana stoveplates
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529
Description: Rectangular with three arches, the middle one larger than the outer two; cavetto-moulded edging; bottom panel, pictorial scene of Jesus and the woman of Samaria at the well (John 4), with other figures, buildings etc. in the background, illegible text below; centre arch, shield, helm, crest and mantling of unidentified arms, the initials 'GP' in bottom corners; left arch, probable figure of a saint; right arch, probable figure of a soldier.
Notes: The combination of a biblical scene (John 4) with a coat of arms.
Inscription: 16 30 / G P
- Decoration tags:
- triple-arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- armorial
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1630 possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/83 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- New Testament firebacks
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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1248
Description: Central arched rectangular shape with rounded corners; ovolo moulding all round; oval Tudor royal shield with garter surrounding, topped with a royal crown; dragon and greyhound supporters; initials split by crown; all details below shield illegible; rectangular extension panels on each side, with twisted rope edging; quasi mirrored arrangement of twisted rope lengths to form (from the top) a cross, a vertical pointing arrow, and a diamond shape with a central vertical line.
Notes: The detail of the extension panel is sharper than the armorial, indicating that the panel was cast with a worn copy of the armorial. Illustrated in Weaver, 1914, p. 16.
Inscription: E R [+ Garter, Harvo and royal mottoes, all illegible]
Arms: Tudor royal (prob. Henry VIII)
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular with curved shoulders (shape)
- rope and ovolo moulding (edging)
- simple stamps
- whole carved pattern
- extension panels
- heraldic
- apotropaic
- armorial
- royal
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Plaistow, West Sussex, England.
Citation: Weaver, L., 1914, Small Country Houses: their repair and enlargement (London, Country Life).
- Attached to series:
- Pounsley series
- John Harvo series
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
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592
Description: Flattened arched rectangular shape with rebated concave shoulders; double fillet edging; 11 x 9 grid portcullis with symmetrical chains in ‘S’ arrangement ending in a ring, from top corners, surmounted by an arched royal crown.
Notes: Whole pattern; the portcullis has a realistic, rather than symbolic, appearance.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto-canted arched rectangular (shape)
- stepped fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- pictorial
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in England.
Current location: Ham House, Richmond, Surrey, England.
Museum number: 1140112 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
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622
Description: Rectangular with pediment arch; ovolo-moulded edging; central shield, mantling and crest: per pale, on a chevron between three heads erased, as many mullets; crest: a hind’s head erased.
Notes: No secure identification of the arms. The blazon may be: Per pale on a chevron between three ?gryphons’ heads erased, three mullets (the tinctures are not known). The crest appears to be a hind's head erased. Sold at Christie's Masters and Makers auction, 30 November 2010, lot 531 (£688).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Not known
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with triangular arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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692
Description: Rectangular with inclined sides, joined by scrolls to a pedimented top; twisted rope edging (top and sides); Garter enclosing the Tudor royal arms, with crowned lion and dragon supporters, crowned helm, and lion crest with mantling; rectangular date compartment at base; initials either side of crest.
Notes: The detached pediment is stylistically typical of the late-16th and early-17th centuries.
Inscription: E R; Garter motto; 160[?0]
Arms: Tudor royal - Elizabeth I
- Decoration tags:
- quasi-rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- rope (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1600 in England.
Current location: Cothay Manor, Stawley, Somerset, England.
- Attached to series:
- Elizabethan royal armorial firebacks
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks