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992
Description: Ogee-arched rectangular shape, centred by a scroll-edged cartouche enclosing a pair of armorial ovals, the left cast with a crowned lion rampant, the right with a salamander surrounded by flames, all between a pair of greyhound supporters and edged with bellflower-decorated pilasters.
Notes: The heraldic design depicting the marriage of Paul de Chabannes (1686-1769), comte de Chabannes de Vergers, with Marie-Madeleine Sallonyer on 1st July 1715 (whose shield is a golden salamander bedded in red hot fire on a blue shield).
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners and round arch (shape)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
- animals
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in France.
Current location: not known.
Citation: Palasi, P., 2014, Plaques de Cheminées Héraldiques (Paris, Éditions Gourcuff-Gradenigo).
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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790
Description: Rectangular with arched rectangular shaped top joined by cavetto curves; astragal edging; shield, supporters, ducal coronet, motto and garter of the Duke of Dorset: Quarterly, Or and gules, a bend vair.
Notes: Almost certainly the arms of Lionel Sackville KG (1688-1765), created first duke of Dorset in 1720; many different firebacks exist, all with precisely the same armorial stamp.
Inscription: [around shield] HONY SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / [on motto scroll] AUT NUNQUAM TENTES, AUT PERFICE
Arms: Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners and round arch (shape)
- astragal (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early-18th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Whatlington, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Dorset arms series
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Sackville firebacks
