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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:
- canted rectangular (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)
- Attached to series:
- 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:
- canted rectangular (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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1000
Description: Canted rectangle; stepped fillet edging (top and sides); straight twisted rope lengths parallel to top and parallel to each side, forming inner rectangle with rope quadrants across top corners; side compartments: line of 12 beads along top inside rope line, 3 semi-circular at corners, with a single bead in each corner quadrant, and 8 down each side; top centre, date with single bead above; cross with a cross stamp repeated 10 times to right of date and 9 time to left, one in each corner, and 13 down the left side and 12 down the right.
Notes: The arc shape and use of repeated beads suggests a common source with other firebacks of the same period.
Inscription: 1686
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- stepped fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1686 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Ashmolean Museum Broadway, 65 High Street, Broadway, Worcestershire, England.
(part of the Ashmolean Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Square cross Dean series
- Date only firebacks
- Newent area group
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1022
Description: Rectangular, with double fillet edging (top and sides); fillets parallel to top and to each side, dividing the plate into two square corner panels and narrow rectangular panels along top and down each side; fillet arc across inside top corners; date split between top corners, divided by vertical fillets, and separated by a hollow saltire stamp repeated six times; one hollow saltire, with a central bead, between each corner arc; eight similar saltire stamps down each side panel; 27 'daisy heads' arranged regularly around outer edge of central panel, with five saltires arranged in a cross shape in the centre.
Notes: The arc shape and use of repeated 'daisy heads' suggests a common source with other firebacks of the same period; the poor definition is due to insufficient impression at the moulding stage.
Inscription: 17 02
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
Manufactured: in 1702 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Tolsey Museum, 126 High Street, Burford, Oxfordshire, England.
(part of the Tolsey Museum, Burford museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- Hollow saltire series
- Newent area group
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235
Description: Fragment; canted rectangle; twisted rope edging (top and sides); repeated scroll strip stamp along each side; date, top centre; a fleur-de-lys stamp repeated three times vertically down left side, probably mirrored on right side (top fleur visible).
Notes: Use of the same stamps indicates a common source with a variant dated 1692 (see Fireback no. 237).
Inscription: 1694
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1694 possibly in the South Wales area of Wales.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 61.49/3 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- St Fagans series
- Date only firebacks
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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 no. 20 (Sussex Archaeological Society library, Barbican House, Lewes, Sussex).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (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: NT/LYT/M/40 (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.
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.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks