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203
Description: Rectangular; fillet edging; fillet parallel to top edge separating top quarter; two fillets parallel to sides separating side quarters; halves of date in top corner squares.
Notes: Numeral style is typical of first half of 18th century.
Inscription: 17 36
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1736 in England.
Current location: Selly Manor, Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
(part of the Selly Manor museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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971
Description: Canted rectangle; fillet edging (top and sides); top centre, date between two 'rose' stamps.
Notes: The four nuts are to secure the fireback to two legs.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in 1658 in England.
Current location: Red Lodge, Park Row, Bristol, England.
Museum number: NX412 (part of the Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives museum group)
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- Date only firebacks
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973
Description: Canted rectangle; fillet edging (top and sides); date to full width across centre of plate.
Notes: Bold, evenly-spaced numerals.
Inscription: 1688
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1688 in England.
Current location: Red Lodge, Park Row, Bristol, England.
Museum number: NX1064 (part of the Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1680s Canted series
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245
Description: Arched rectangular shaped with narrow shoulders; fillet edging; date in individual numerals across arch.
Notes: A larger version is different in the spacing of the numerals and the proportions of the plate. For another casting of this fireback see J. Every Collection catalogue #20 (Sussex Archaeological Society library, Barbican House, Lewes, Sussex).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Lytes Cary Manor, Charleton Mackrell, Somerset, England.
Museum number: 254606 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1658 arched series
- Date only firebacks
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270
Description: Rectangular; cyma recta moulded edging; centre top, date formed of individual stamps.
Notes: The moulding used for the edging, which was probably derived from redundant furniture, is very similar to that used on several firebacks of a similar style in the late 17th century, although the lettering style is different. Although its small height suggests that this may only be the top half of a fireback, the existence of a plate of similar dimensions in Brighton Museum may indicate that the proportions were deliberate.
Inscription: 1728
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cyma recta (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1728 in England.
Current location: Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset, England.
(part of the Dorset County Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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1085
Description: Rectangular; rebated ovolo-moulded edging (top, left and half-right sides); top centre, date with unevenly positioned numerals.
Notes: The asymmetry of the side moulding is unusual.
Inscription: 1667
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rebated ovolo moulding (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1667 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Faversham, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1660s-90s Wealden series
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1006
Description: Rectangular shape with twisted rope edging (top and sides); date split between top corners.
Notes: The central button on the number 1 is consistent with a date in the first half of the seventeenth century. Hall's auction, Shrewsbury, 28 Oct 2015, lot 127 (£190).
Inscription: 16 37
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1637 possibly in the Shropshire area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Wigmore, Herefordshire, England.
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- Date only firebacks
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313
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cavetto moulded edging; date top centre within arch.
Notes: Plain elegant fireback from a late series, probably cast in the south east of England. The crack emanating from the top right corner of the fireback seems to be a weakness on all the recorded examples, and may have caused by thinness of the base board at that point.
Inscription: 1853
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1853 in England.
Current location: Nymans, Staplefield Road, Handcross, Slaugham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1850s series
- Date only firebacks
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1138
Description: Arched rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); upper centre, date between shoulders of arch.
Notes: The numerals have been crudely impressed, probably using a pointed implement.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- rope (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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1243
Description: Canted rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); top centre, date '1675'.
Notes: Similar, in size, shape and position of numerals, to a fireback of 1670 but the numerals are from a different stock.
Inscription: 1675
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1675 in England.
Current location: Harvington Hall, Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, England.
(part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks