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210
Description: Quasi-arched rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; fluid curving, double ovolo arch with a pair of putti holding looped ribbons; a lion rampant holding a cartouche, between two pilasters, each surmounted by a dragon’s head.
Notes: A simple decorative device has replaced the customary allegorical or classical scene.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with ornate arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- animals
Manufactured: in the late-17th century in England.
Current location: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HA105020 (part of the Brighton Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Late pictorial series (all)
- Late pictorial series 5
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1011
Description: Rectangular shape with cavetto-moulded edging; top centre, initials in triad with date below; on each side, stamp formed of a small, wavy-arched rectangular fireback bearing a lion rampant between pilasters surmounted by burning cauldrons, beneath two mirrored putti holding branches; beneath the date, a stamp formed of a small arched-rectangular fireback laid on its left side with a burning cauldron on each shoulder and the faint figure of a bird in the centre.
Notes: The two identical fireback stamps on either side of the inscription have been noted elsewhere (see no. 210 Late Pictorial series 5); the centre and right fireback stamps have been impressed insufficiently; illustration from Country Life advertisement by T. Crowther & Son Ltd, 18 Oct 1984.
Inscription: TFE [triad] / 1701
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- composite
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- architectural
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1701 in England.
Current location: not known.
