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914
Description: Rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides) with fillet edging at bottom; cast of a 1598 fireback within a recessed panel, the arch of the original fireback being overlaid with twisted rope and diagonal lengths of rope laid alongside. The original fireback is described as follows: Composite of three elements; central panel has a complex ‘knot’ pattern with a fillet edge; side panel, repeated on either side of the central panel, contains a vase of flowers, possibly stylised thistles, within an arched frame and fillet edge; arched panel above, also with fillet edge, contains the date and inscription; the spandrels of the side panels, and the arched top panel, contain a series of circular motifs comprising concentric rings deepening towards the centre.
Notes: The central fireback measures 795mm wide by 735mm high and is from a different casting to that seen at Linchmere, Sussex.
Inscription: 1598 / IM IB
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- composite
- planklines
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Goddards, Abinger Common, Abinger, Surrey, England.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
- Composite firebacks
- Garden design types
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1121
Description: Rectangular shape; cavetto-moulded edging; central abstract arrangement in low relief of a horizontally positioned oval surrounded by four separated spandrels forming a rectangular shape over all; at each side, on a raised rectangular field, a stylised bud or cone of helical form, within a calyx above a semi-circular base, one mirroring the other. A deep plankline is evident half way up the left plant.
Notes: An excrescence on the right side may have been caused by iron being poured from a ladle disturbing the casting sand. There are no parallels for this fireback design. The central abstract arrangement may be associated with a formal plan of a garden parterre, the stylised plants continuing that theme.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- architectural
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Buxted, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
- Garden design types
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475
Description: Composite of three elements; central panel has a complex ‘knot’ pattern with a fillet edge; side panel, repeated on either side of the central panel, contains a vase of flowers, possibly stylised thistles, within an arched frame and fillet edge; arched panel above, also with fillet edge, contains the date and inscription; the spandrels of the side panels, and the arched top panel, contain a series of circular motifs comprising concentric rings deepening towards the centre.
Notes: ‘Knot’ patterns were popular in gardens of the period. The garden theme is continued with the side panels. A version of the same design, recorded in a photograph of 1904 at Willesden, London, is a different casting, the top panel with the date and initials, being straight not slightly askew as in this example.
Inscription: 1598 / IM IB
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in 1598 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Linchmere, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
- Garden design types
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1063
Description: Composite of three elements; central panel has a complex ‘knot’ pattern with a fillet edge; side panel, repeated on either side of the central panel, contains a vase of flowers, possibly stylised thistles, within an arched frame and fillet edge; arched panel above, also with fillet edge, contains the date and inscription; the spandrels of the side panels, and the arched top panel, contain a series of circular motifs comprising concentric rings deepening towards the centre.
Notes: ‘Knot’ patterns were popular in gardens of the period. The garden theme is continued with the side panels. An example of the same design, noted at Linchmere, West Sussex, is a different casting, the top panel with the date and initials being slightly askew. From a photograph in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; photographed at Mapesbury House, Willesden in 1904.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1598 / IM IB
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in 1598 in the Weald area of England.
Current location:.
Museum number: E.4376-2000 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
- Garden design types