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615
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); two irregularly spaced crosses formed of short, thick twisted lengths of rope.
Notes: The crosses may have been formed by twisting thinner rope around a short length of dowel, and are likely to have Christian significance.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- apotropaic
- objects
Manufactured: in the 16th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Rope design firebacks
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616
Description: Rectangular; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); date (in two parts) split across upper part of plate.
Notes: A recasting
Inscription: 17 25
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1725 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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619
Description: Rectangular; astragal edging; leopard passant guardant sinister canted, facing a leopard passant, with a crowned shield between bearing the initials, KH, above a fleur-de-lys.
Notes: One of the Royal series with uncommonly few stamps.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: KH
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the mid 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
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623
Description: Rectangular; ovolo moulded edging (top and sides); at top, date split by initials (with dot between).
Notes: A bold, elegant plate with characters in high relief. The character set is known to have been used for another fireback cast at Heathfield Furnace, Sussex. Sold at Christie's Masters and Makers auction, 30 November 2010, lot 521 (£1000 part with no. 601, no. 637 and no. 634).
Inscription: 17 I·P 54
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1754 at Heathfield Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1750s Heathfield series
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624
Description: Rectangular; cavetto edging all round; seated lion on right, its tail rising above its back and its head turned to face the viewer; a seated sheep on the left; date split across top.
Notes: Intended to represent the saying, ‘The lion shall lie down with the lamb’, a popular misquotation of Isaiah 11: 6.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1679
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
- Old Testament & Apocrypha firebacks
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628
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); twisted rope length stamped eight times in a mirrored double rhombus pattern with a central cross; a crude human figurine stamped irregularly four times, two on each side of the rope design.
Notes: An uncharacteristically small fireback for its likely period.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- apotropaic
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
- Figurine firebacks
- Rope design firebacks
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634
Description: Rectangular; astragal and fillet moulding on top and side edges; symmetrical layout of date and initials; date split between left and right sides, initials in middle.
Notes: One of a series of backs dating to the 1730s and 40s using very similar sets of letters and numerals. Sold at Christie's Masters and Makers auction, 30 November 2010, lot 521 (£1000 part lot with no. 601, no. 623 and no. 637).
Inscription: 17 RM 39
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal & fillet (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1739 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1730s-40s, date & initial series
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637
Description: Rectangular; astragal and fillet edging; date across top of plate.
Notes: One of a series of backs dating to the 1730s and 40s using very similar sets of letters and numerals. Sold at Christie's Masters and Makers auction, 30 November 2010, lot 521 (£1000 part lot with no. 601, no. 623 and no. 634).
Inscription: 1736
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal & fillet (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1736 in the Weald area of England.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1730s-40s, date & initial series
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304
Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulded edging; English royal Stuart shield, garter, crown, supporters and motto.
Notes: One of many designs of the Stuart royal arms on firebacks. A recasting, hence the illegible motto. Sold at Christie's Masters and Makers auction, 30 November 2010, lot 517 (£1,875).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE / DIEV ET MON DROIT
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the 17th century in England.
Current location: Suffolk House Antiques, High Street, Yoxford, Suffolk, England.
- Attached to series:
- Stuart royal armorial firebacks
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640
Description: Rectangular; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); repeated guilloche pattern inside top and side edges; upper centre, lozenge stamp with ovolo edges and recessed daisy flower in centre, between buckle stamps repeated twice.
Notes: The lozenge stamp is a design also seen on domestic interior panelling; the buckles suggest a Pelham family association; the buckle and lozenge are separate stamps, and in each example their relative positions differ slightly; the guilloche design appears to have been carved on the base panel; an example at The Star Inn, Alfriston, Sussex measures 665mm x 480mm.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- carved pattern panels
- heraldic
- objects
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Pelham family firebacks
- Pelham buckle and lozenge series
- Metalware stamp firebacks