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565
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; small guilloche pattern down each side and along the bottom; upper panel, pictorial scene of the Marriage at Cana; lower panel, inscription panel within a strapwork cartouche with flowers below.
Notes: An end stove plate with a popular scene from the New Testament - John 2.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 H 38
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1638 possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Folkestone Library and Heritage Centre, Grace Street, Folkestone, Kent, England.
(part of the Folkestone Library and Heritage Centre museum group)
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103
Description: Rectangular; flanged or astragal and fillett edging; female portrait in a medallion of three concentric rings; date split between four corners
Notes: An unusually small stoveplate.
Inscription: 1 6 [?0] 4
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal & fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1604 possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere, Surrey, England.
(part of the Haslemere Educational Museum museum group)
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357
Description: Stove side plate; ovolo moulded edging; upper panel, pictorial scene of Jesus and the woman of Samaria (John: 4), with inscription below; lower panel, two circular frames, each with a figure, male to the right, female to the left, decorative scroll work between.
Notes: Stove plates were often used as firebacks once the stoves had been replaced by more efficient ones.
Inscription: VON DEN FREWLEIN VON SAMARIA IOHAN 4
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- biblical
- architectural
- text
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Warwickshire, England.
(part of the National Trust museum group)
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420
Description: Rectanglular; flanged cavetto-moulded edging; pictorial scene of Christ and the woman of Samaria at Jacob's Well.
Notes: Stoveplate; the scene illustrates the story from John 4.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.797 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
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- Woman of Samaria stoveplates
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421
Description: Rectangular; flanged edge; central pictorial panel illustrating Mordecai arriving before King Ahasuerus, Haman hanging from the gallows behind; two floral side panels, at the top of each a monogram within a cartouche: on the left KS, on the right H?D.
Notes: Stoveplate; the scene illustrates a scene from Esther 7: 10 and 8: 1. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: KS H[?]D
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- architectural
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.040 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
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- Stoveplates
- Esther stoveplates
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434
Description: Damaged; rectangle, flanged edging; two vertical panels, each with a row of lancet arches along the top: on right, robed figure with a crown, head tilted to left, left hand raised in benediction, right hand holding a chalice, standing on a bracket; on right, similar figure facing forward.
Notes: Stoveplate. Similar plates suggest these may be two of the Magi.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- simple stamps
- architectural
- humans
Manufactured: in the early-16th century in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.795 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
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- Stoveplates
- Figurine firebacks
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547
Description: Rectangular with flanged edging; upper rectangular panel with cyma recta edging; pictorial scene of the Marriage at Cana; lower rectangular panel with fillet edging; three circular medallions with twin, concentric fillet edges, the left one with the bust of male, the right one with the bust of a female and the centre one with a floral design.
Notes: The scene is from the New Testament - John 2.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- pictorial
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/103 (part of the National Trust museum group)
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- Marriage at Cana stoveplates
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562
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; main panel, pictorial scene of Adam and Eve with, between them, the Tree of Life, bearing fruit, entwined by a serpent; bottom panel indistinct.
Notes: A much worn plate.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-16th century possibly in the Wallonia area of Belgium.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/56 (part of the National Trust museum group)
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579
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; upper part, pictorial scene of a landscape with tree, clouds and buildings in the background; foreground, Jesus and three disciples, and a woman pleading on her knees. Above the group, the letter D; at the bottom, the letters, MR.
Notes: Although the quotation is given as Matthew 15: 15, the scene appears to illustrate Matthew 15: 22 - 'And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.'
Inscription: D / MATTHAI CAP 15 V 15 [quotation in German] / MR[?]
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-17th century in Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/70 (part of the National Trust museum group)
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550
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; rectangular upper panel with cyma recta edging; pictorial scene of Jesus sitting at the well with the woman of Samaria, inscription along the bottom edge; lower inset rectangular panel with date in relief.
Notes: The inscription reads: From the maiden of Samaria - John 4
Inscription: VOM FROWLEIN VON SAMARIA JOH 4 / 1649
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
Manufactured: in 1649 possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/92 (part of the National Trust museum group)
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- Stoveplates
- Woman of Samaria stoveplates