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827
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead-and-pellet edging on a broad fillet; pictorial scene of a figure in a chariot drawn by birds, above a ground, and with clouds over; arched rectangular border with fillet edging; alternating acanthus leaves with symmetrical curled lines, monogram centre bottom; on top, two mirrored sea serpents; extension panels to each side.
Notes: The figure is that of Jupiter, holding a bolt of lightning, who is sometimes portrayed in a chariot drawn by eagles; width without extension panels - 477mm.
Inscription: [?]WH
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- extension panels
- pictorial
- mythological
- monogram
- text
- animals
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in England.
Current location: Westgate, Winchester, Hampshire, England.
Museum number: WINCM:LH 5705 (part of the Winchester Museums museum group)
- Attached to series:
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
- WH series
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799
Description: Rectangular; plain plate with shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720; many different firebacks exist, all with precisely the same armorial stamp.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: [around shield] HONY SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / [on motto scroll] AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Withyham, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Sackville firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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800
Description: Rectangular; plain plate with shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720; many different firebacks exist, all with precisely the same armorial stamp.
Inscription: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE [Either do not attempt, or complete]
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Withyham, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Sackville firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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1313
Description: Canted rectangle; cavetto-moulded edging; three horizontal strips bearing a fine repeated ribbing: one horizontal below canted corners, and two vertical strips parallel to each side, dividing the fireback into two side panels, two top corner panels, top panel and main central panel; in each top corner panel a flower head stamp; top panel, date between a repeated double fleur-de-lys stamp; in each side panel, a stamp formed of an arrangement of scrolled tendrils, with a double fleur-de-lys stamp below; central panel, a flower head stamp in each top corner.
Notes: The divided structure of the decoration and the use of flower head and double fleur stamps places this fireback in the series identified on some castings with the initials IB. The tendril decoration in the side panels has not been seen on other backs in the series.
Inscription: 1702
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1702 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Crawley, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- IB series
- Date only firebacks