Firebacks

Manufactured in the mid-20th century

  1. 1300

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    1710 x 850 mm

    Description: Rectangular shape; twisted rope edging; top centre, a lion passant on the right and a lion passant guardant sinister on the left; in each top corner, a four-petalled Tudor rose; below each rose, two 'imps', one with right arm raised, the other with both arms lowered, the pair on the left facing to the right and the pair on the right facing to the left; below each lion, a crowned, four-petalled Tudor rose.

    Notes: A spurious fireback based on, and possibly adapted from, a 16th century back, this and its copies include remodelled rope edging, lions and 'imp' figures, all probably dating from the restoration of Bunratty Castle in the 1960s.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    Manufactured: in the mid-20th century in Ireland.

    Current location: Bunratty Castle, Bunratty, County Clare, Republic of Ireland.

  2. 815

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    ? x ? mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Arched rectangular shape with crown, top centre; central peacock, its tail feathers displayed, with two other peacocks below, their tail feathers down; name across top of arch, split by initial, R; date ato bottom below tail feathers.

    Notes: Manufactured by Seager's of Dartford, Kent

    Inscription: CHARLES FRANCIS / R / 1967

    Manufactured: in 1967 in England.

    Current location: not known.

  3. 323

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    ?1000 x ?700 mm
    Image subject to copyright

    Description: Canted rectangle; simulated rope edging; otherwise plain.

    Copies of this fireback are known.

    Manufactured: in the mid-20th century in England.

    Current location: Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England.

    Museum number: 426390 (part of the National Trust museum group)