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330
Description: Rectangular; plain edge; top centre, ring between repeated lion's head between repeated narrow human figure with folded arms standing on a bracket; below each figure, a small bracket.
Notes: The figures are indistinct and are disproportionately small for the size of the firebacks; from Isfield Place 1921.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- animals
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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331
Description: Rectangular; no edging; inscription evenly spaced along top, sans serif lettering.
Inscription: IS D T IS
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th to early 20th century in England.
Current location: Horsham Museum, Causeway, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
(part of the Horsham Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Initials only firebacks
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951
Description: Rectangular; central shield; fleur-de-lys stamp repeated three times across top and once on each side level with shield, all regularly spaced.
Notes: It is likely that the arms relate to the marriage, in 1541, of Christopher Sackville (c.1519-1559), son of John Sackville of Chiddingly, and Constance Colepeper, daughter of Thomas Colepeper of Bedgbury, one of whose ancestors was the heiress, Elizabeth Hardreshall. The blazon: Sackville - quarterly or and gules, a bend vair; Colepeper - argent a bend engrailed gules; Hardreshall - argent a chevron sable between nine martlets or, six and three. Christopher Sackville's brother, Sir Richard, owned Horsted Keynes furnace, which may have been where this fireback was cast.
Arms: Sackville impaling Colepeper and Hardreshall
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the mid 16th century possibly at Horsted Keynes furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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950
Description: Rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); date top centre.
Notes: The style of the numerals is identical to those seen on another fireback, indicating a common source.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly at Laytons (Tintern) furnace in the Forest of Dean area of Wales.
Current location: in private hands, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1640-50s Dean series
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347
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); central Tudor shield, garter, crown and supporters (greyhound and lion), formed from separate stamps; date on a single stamp in top left corner.
Notes: The worn appearance of the central arms, compared with the clarity of the date, suggests that this is an early example of a fireback being used as a pattern, with the addition of a subsequent date. The same stamps forming the arms can also be seen on other firebacks. The extension of the lower part of the ‘3’ on the date stamp suggests that the numbers may have been fixed to the backing block, rather than the date being carved as a whole. Another variant of this fireback has the rope lengths extending only three-quarters of the way down the sides.
Inscription: 1583
Arms: Tudor royal
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- date stamp
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1583 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Ightham Mote, Ightham, Kent, England.
Museum number: NT/IGH/M/10 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Pounsley series
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
- Redated Tudor series
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345
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); from top, crowned Tudor royal shield (stamp overpressed) above crowned shield bearing initials, KH in Lombardic lettering, above a fleur de lys (stamp overpressed); to left, diagonal lion passant guardant sinister; to right, diagonal lion passant; at base, single ‘imp’ figure, arms to side, moving left but facing right, between two pairs of ‘imp’ figures (separately stamped), one moving left, right arm raised, the other moving right, right arm raised.
Notes: One of the ‘Royal’ series.
Arms: Tudor royal arms of England
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- heraldic
- armorial
- humans
Manufactured: in the mid 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Ightham Mote, Ightham, Kent, England.
Museum number: NT/IGH/M/45 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Royal series
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1104
Description: Rectangular shape; plain edging (top and sides); full-height impression of a fireback of arched rectangular shape and ovolo edging; date in arch; below arch, two parallel straps, each with a buckle at the top; initials T above R to the left of centre, and P above T to the right.
Notes: The side edging of the original fireback has been erased before casting. A variant of the 1642 series of firebacks bearing the Pelham buckle badge and the initials TP, believed to relate to Sir Thomas Pelham (1597-1654). It is not known to whom the initials RT relate; their style suggests they are contemporary with the original fireback. A larger fireback has been created by impressing the Pelham fireback into a plain rectangular mould.
Inscription: 1642 / T P / R T
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- plain and ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- planklines
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Isleworth, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- 1642 Pelham series
- Pelham family firebacks
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1118
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); initials in top corners; below the initials, a saltire formed of possibly two straight lengths of twisted rope.
Notes: The saltire is likely to have an apotropaic purpose; the hollows in the risers of the letter 'H' and the end of the left line of the saltire may have been formed by gas bubbles in the molten iron during casting.
Inscription: N H
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- individual letters
- apotropaic
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century in England.
Current location: in private hands, Isleworth, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- Rope design firebacks
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1014
Description: Rectangular with moulded edging; shield, forward-facing helm, lion's head crest, mantling, lion supporters, and collar of the Order of St Michael
Notes: The arms are probably those of Jean Bouchu (1597-1653), French parliamentarian: azure, a chevron between, in chief, two crescents and, in base, a lion rampant sinister or.
Inscription: 1641
Arms: Bouchu
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- complex individual (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1641 in France.
Current location: Claude Augustin Antique Materials, 104 Route Nationale 6, 69380 Les Chères, Rhone, France.
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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1172
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging (top and sides); to each side, two saltires formed of crossed lengths of twisted rope; in between, and repeated seven times, a circular stamp decorated in low relief with a central disc perforated in the centre, surrounded by a circle inside a square looped at each corner, the sides of which are echoed twice on each side; the stamps are arranged in two rows, of three and four, in the upper part of the plate.
Notes: A boldly cast fireback with an excrescence top centre caused by disturbance of the casting sand by the pouring of the iron.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved stamps
- apotropaic
- objects
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Retrouvius, 1016 Harrow Rd, Kensal Green, Brent, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- Food mould stamp firebacks
- Rope design firebacks