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745
Description: Rectangular; flanged edging; two panels, each with fillet edging; upper panel, two shields, each with helm and crest, between narrow twisted columns, with tracery above and a twisted horizontal pole on top; lower panel, same shields and twisted columns with a crossed vine design above and the same pole on top.
Notes: Probably arms of locksmiths' and masons' guilds.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- flanged (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- architectural
- armorial
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-16th century in Germany.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: M.12-1940 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stoveplates
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751
Description: Rectangular, cavetto moulded edging; Stuart royal shield, garter, supporters and crown.
Notes: One clear vertical plank line indicate that the pattern for this fireback was formed of a series of boards probably secured by horizontal battens on the rear.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the mid- to late-17th century in England.
Current location: Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington & Chelsea, Greater London, England.
Museum number: 432.1896 (part of the Victoria & Albert Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Stuart royal armorial firebacks
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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. The base board appears to have been repositioned prior to the wreath stamps being impressed in the mould. 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 (sable 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, Beaulieu 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 each side of the central panel, repeated floriate stamps and flower heads.
Notes: A similar plate is illustrated by Nygard-Nilssen vol. 1, p.255. The poor detail suggests that this is a copy.
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 (Oslo, Cappelens Forlag).
- 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 the New Testament episode (Acts 28: 3) when St Paul, shipwrecked in the island of Malta, was putting sticks on a fire and a viper bit him. The distinctive shape of the ‘1’ in the date and the initials, ‘IM’, together with the ‘S’ scrolls, parallel such features in other firebacks. 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
- 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
Description: 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