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488
Description: Rectangular with complex quasi-arched rectangular top; fillet edging; shield with Royal arms of France in a cartouche; above, an English crown.
Notes: The combination of the English crown and French arms is common and may relate to the marriage of Charles I and Princess Henrietta Maria of France in 1625. Said to have been cast by Thomas Prickett (1727-95) at Gloucester Furnace, Lamberhurst. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: France modern
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century probably at Gloucester Furnace, Lamberhurst in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Michelham Priory, Arlington, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.068 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
- Attached to series:
- Ornate border series
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
- Anglo-French armorial firebacks
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491
Description: Armorial; one plank line; shield, supporters, helm, crest and garter of the Sackville family: quarterly or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: The arms of Thomas Sackville (1527-1608), created 1st Baron Buckhurst in 1567 and invested Knight of the Garter in 1589. He was MP for East Grinstead. He was created 1st Earl of Dorset in 1604; the back therefore dates between 1589 and 1604.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI ... MAL Y PEN ...
Arms: Sackville, Baron Buckhurst
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Michelham Priory, Arlington, East Sussex, England.
(part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Butterfield, W. R., 1916, 'Old Wealden Firebacks', The Connoisseur, 46, pp. 197-209.
- Attached to series:
- Ornate border series
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Sackville firebacks
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506
Description: Plain rectangular shield with sloping edges; shield helm and crest of Sir Weetman Pearson Bt.: Per fess indented gules and or, between two suns in splendour in chief an escutcheon bearing a baronet's badge, and a demi-gryphon couped wings elevated and addorsed in base all counterchanged; crest: in front of a demi-gryphon as in the arms, holding between the claws a mill-stone proper, thereon a mill-rind sable, a sun in splendour.
Notes: Sir Weetman Pearson, later Viscount Cowdray, was created Baronet in 1894 and Baron in 1910, the fireback thus dates from the period 1894-1910. The motto - Do it with thy might - is from Ecclesiates 9: 10.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: DO IT WITH THY MIGHT
Arms: Sir Weetman Pearson Bt
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 19th century in England.
Current location: Parham House, Parham, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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659
Description: Rectangular with complex quasi-arched rectangular top; ovolo moulded edging; shield with Royal arms of France in a cartouche; above, an English crown.
Notes: A different version of the fireback above. The combination of the English crown and French arms is common and may relate to the marriage of Charles I and Princess Henrietta Maria of France in 1625; probably the work of the same pattern maker. Many copies exist of this fireback.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: French royal
- Decoration tags:
- complex quasi-arched (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Rolvenden, Kent, England.
- Attached to series:
- Ornate border series
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
- Anglo-French armorial firebacks