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186
Description: Plain rectangle with cavetto moulded edging (top and sides); pediment with same moulding.
Notes: Three identical backs, but with various stamps, indicate that this fireback came from the same source as a distinct series of Tudor heraldic backs.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with pediment (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 952.51.47 (part of the Hastings Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Base boards
- Royal (wreath) series
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338
Description: Rectangular with pediment; ovolo moulded edging inside top of pediment and inside top and sides of rectangle; centre top, four-petal rose and crown with fleur de lys below; at either end, stamps made from two parts of a wreath (the middle section missing) enclosing a fleur de lys.
Notes: The wreaths from which the stamps have been disassembled can be seen complete on two other firebacks, and the rose and crown is a common stamp on a large series of early firebacks.
Inscription: ?I T
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with pediment (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Huddington, Worcestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series
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672
Description: Rectangular with pediment; ovolo moulded edging inside top of pediment and inside top and sides of rectangle; central talbot crest within wreath and eight-pointed star, between four fleurs-de-lys.
Notes: The wreath and talbot crest are identical to those on a 1584 fireback in the Victoria & Albert Museum; one of the ‘Royal’ series.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with pediment (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Middle House Hotel, High Street, Mayfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series
- Fleur-de-lys stamp types
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689
Description: Rectangular with pediment; ovolo moulded edging inside top of pediment and inside top and sides of rectangle; centre top, four-petal rose and crown with three fleurs-de-lys below; at either end, stamps made from two parts of a wreath (the middle section missing); in the pediment a cross.
Notes: The wreaths from which the stamps have been disassembled can be seen complete on two other firebacks, and the rose and crown is a common stamp on a large series of early firebacks.
Inscription: I T
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with pediment (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- heraldic
- royal
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Slaugham, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series
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752
Description: Rectangular; cavetto moulded edging on top and sides, with astragal and fillet inside; talbot crest within wreath and eight-pointed star, repeated at top corners; date top centre between mouldings.
Notes: The crest is probably that of the Parker family, of Ratton, near Eastbourne, Sussex. Acquired from Marle Green Farm, Hellingly, Sussex, in 1896.
Inscription: 1584
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- animals
- objects
Manufactured: in 1584 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 780.1896 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series