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752
Description: Rectangular; cavetto moulded edging on top and sides, with astragal and fillet inside; talbot crest within wreath and eight-pointed star, repeated at top corners; date top centre between mouldings.
Notes: The crest is probably that of the Parker family, of Ratton, near Eastbourne, Sussex. Acquired from Marle Green Farm, Hellingly, Sussex, in 1896.
Inscription: 1584
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- animals
- objects
Manufactured: in 1584 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 780.1896 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
- Royal (wreath) series
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754
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; two panels at top, each with double astragal edging, containing the figures of St James and St Peter; plain panel below with same dging; bottom panel with fillet edging containing carved stamps of scrolled foliage and beasts.
Notes: Carved religious figures are common on stove-plates.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- carved stamps
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.334-1940 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
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762
Description: Rectangular; astragal and fillet edging; oval shield of the Paulet family (three swords, points conjoined in pile), within a cartouche, surmounted by a marquis’s coronet; date split between bottom corners.
Notes: The arms of Charles Paulet, 6th Marquess of Winchester, who succeeded to the title in 1674 and was created Duke of Bolton in 1689. The fireback is reported to have come from Grange Farm, Basing House, Hampshire; Basing House was the seat of the Paulets.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 87
Arms: Charles Paulet, 6th Marquess of Winchester
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- astragal & fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1687 possibly at Sowley furnace in England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.103-1913 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Paulet firebacks
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764
Description: Stove-plate; rectangular; flanged edging; central rectangular panel bearing the shield of the kingdom of Denmark and Norway with male supporters, encircled by the chain of the Order of the Elephant; one ach side of the central panel, repeated floriate stamps and flower heads.
Notes: A similar plate is illustrated by Nygard-Nilssen vol. 1, p.255.
Arms: Kingdom of Denmark and Norway
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- carved stamps
- carved pattern panels
- armorial
Manufactured: in the early to mid 18th century .
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.12-2002 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
Citation: Nygard-Nilssen, A., 1944, Norsk Jernskulptur (Cappelens Forlag, Oslo).
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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769
Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulded edge; a snake rises from a fire and bites the middle finger of the hand of a sleeved left arm that descends from a top right corner cloud; left and right, ‘S’ scrolls appear strapped to the edge of the fireback; the date, top left of centre; initials, bottom right corner.
Notes: An illustration of New Testament, Acts 28: 3. The distinctive shape of the ‘1’ in the date and the initials, ‘IM’, together with the ‘S’ scrolls, parallel such features in other firebacks linked with Brede furnace. The design is an adaptation of an illustration in 'Devises Heroiques' by Claudius Paradin (1557) which was translated into English by Geoffrey Whitney as 'The Book of Emblemes' (1586).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1649 / IM
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- biblical
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in 1649 possibly at Brede furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.119-1984 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
Citation: Hamling, T., 2010, Decorating the 'Godly' Household (New Haven, Yale), pp. 251-2.
- Attached to series:
- IM series
- Biblical firebacks
- Hooked '1' series
- New Testament firebacks
- Brede group
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776
Description: Stove-plate; poss. fragment; rectangular; flanged edging on top and sides; pictorial scene illustrating the biblical tale of Joshua and the five kings.
Notes: Joshua 10.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- biblical
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century possibly in the Eifel area of Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 289.1923 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
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777
Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulding within a flanged edge; floriate arch above a female figure with a child in her left arm and another by her right side, initials split by the group; below a simulated rope-twist fillet, elaborate floriate cartouche containing the word, CHARITAS.
Notes: A late stove-plate, illustrated in von den driesch p.484.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: G S / CHARITAS
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- allegorical
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in the late 17th century in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 890.1901 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
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1067
? x ? mmImage subject to copyrightDescription: Fragment; rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); six stamps, in two columns of three, taking the form of a long-pointed arrow head within a circlet of small curls.
Notes: The stamps are of an unfamiliar type with some similarity to the heraldic symbol for ermine. Because only the left part of the fireback has survived it is not known how many original columns of this stamp there were.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
Manufactured: in the 16th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England.
Museum number: M.148-1915 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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1171
Description: Rectangular shape; fillet edging; arrangement of five shields: centre, arms of the kingdom of France surmounted by a crown and, below, the word FRANCE on a fillet edged rectangular block over a cartouche; top left, arms of the duchy of Lorraine surmounted by a bishop's mitre and crozier separating a largely illegible text; top right, arms of the kingdom of Spain surmounted by a crown with the letters SPA to the left; bottom right, arms of the duchy of Nevers surmounted by a coronet below a fillet edged rectangle with the word NEVERS; bottom left, arms of the kingdom of England surmounted by a crown below a fillet edged rectangle with the word ANGLIA; bottom centre, the date 1623.
Notes: A taque de foyer or takenplatte; the arms in the corners are likely to be of Louis of Lorraine, Cardinal of Guise, King Philip III of Spain, Charles I, Duke of Nevers and Rethel, and Queen Elizabeth I of England. A similar fireback with the same arms, illustrated by von den Driesch (1990, p.181), has the date 1611.
Inscription: [LORR]AI[NE] SPA / ANGLIA NEVERS / FRANCE / 16z3
Arms: Louis of Lorraine; Kingdom of Spain; Kingdom of France; Kingdom of England; Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1623 possibly in the Lorraine area of Belgium.
Current location: Musée Gaumais, 38 Rue d'Arlon, Virton, Luxembourg, Belgium.
(part of the Musée Gaumais museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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991
Description: Rectangular with fillet edging (top and sides) formed from separate strips, possible from furniture; date split by letters in triad; number '1' has a central knob.
Notes: The initials are believed to relate to Thomas and Mary Manser, who occupied the Star Inn, Waldron, East Sussex, in the seventeenth century.
Inscription: 16 TMM 94
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- text
Manufactured: in 1694 probably at Waldron furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: The Star Inn, Waldron, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks