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831
Description: Rectangular with small detached pediment; cavetto-moulded edging; upper centre, shield, helm, crest and mantling, with date, 1635, split either side of crest; top, date, 1649, split either side of armorial; initials split either side of armorial, below date.
Notes: The armorial, tentatively associated with the family of Brooke or Broke of Madeley, Shropshire (blazon: chequy argent and sable, impaling a chevron between three estoiles), dated 1635, was formed from a pattern designed for a smaller fireback (q.v.), but positioned on a larger backing board with the later date and initials added separately, most of the frame of the original fireback being pared away. From an illustration in the catalogue of an exhibition on heraldry at Burlington House, London, in 1894.
Inscription: 16 35 / 16 49 / R B
Arms: poss. Brooke or Broke of Staffordshire
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- composite
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1649 in England.
Current location:.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Composite firebacks
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917
Description: Rectangular with detached pediment joined by S-curves; cavetto-moulded edging; shield, helm, bird crest and mantling, with date, 1635, split either side of crest; bottom of casting missing due to corrosion.
Notes: Tentatively identified as the arms of Brooke or Broke of Lapley, Staffordshire (blazon: chequy argent and sable, impaling a chevron between three estoiles); this fireback, or its pattern, have been used as a stamp on another fireback with a later date and initials added separately (see Fireback no. 831).
Inscription: 16 35
Arms: poss. Brooke of Staffordshire
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1635 in England.
Current location: Cambridge and County Folk Museum, 2/3 Castle Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
(part of the Cambridge and County Folk Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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857
Description: Rectangular with detached pediment linked by S-curves, protruding from each of which is a small scroll; cavetto-moulded edging (top and sides); quartered shield with helm, crest and mantling; initials in top corners.
Notes: The arms are of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), judge and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1606-13. Blazon: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, three roses argent, on a chief of the second three roses of the first (Caesar); 2nd, argent, two bars sable, on a chief of the second three swans of the first (?Martin); 3rd, gules, three crescents argent (Peryent/Perin). Crest: a dolphin embowed in the sea vert. This example has the additional initials, TC. The style of the carving is the same as on two other firebacks in the same county.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: T C
Arms: Caesar
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- planklines
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the early 17th century possibly in the Herefordshire area of England.
Current location: Croft Castle, Yarpole, Herefordshire, England.
Museum number: 537532 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Loop edged firebacks
- Herefordshire armorial series
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355
Description: Rectangular joined to pediment by symmetrical scrolls; fillet edging with embattling inside; shield, helm, crest, supporters and mantling of the city of Bristol; date split by bottom of shield; inscription in an oval cartouche below shield.
Notes: Both '3's in the date are a substitution, with another casting suggesting an original date of 1614 or 1624. The pattern-maker was also responsible for carving royal coats of arms in three West Country churches and a small numnber of series of firebacks in the first quarter of the 17th century.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 33 / [ARMES] BRISTOLL
Arms: City of Bristol
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1633 possibly in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: Kenilworth Castle, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England.
Museum number: 88278827 (part of the English Heritage museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Civic firebacks
- Bristol armorial series
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682
Description: Rectangular, with detached pediment joined by mirrored S-shaped scrolls; fillet edging with scalloping on inside edge (top and sides of rectangle, and pediment, only); central Tudor rose with surrounding garter, crowned lion and dragon supporters, surmounted by a helmet, mantling and crowned lion passant crest; initials, ER, separated by crest; initials, TP, in top corners of rectangle; ‘date’ split between bottom corners.
Notes: Stylistically of the late 16th or very early 17th centuries, the date is absent from some versions, and is likely to have been added spuriously to later recastings, of which this is one, the style of the numerals being identical to a series of firebacks cast in 1648-58.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: E R / T P / 1558
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- scalloped fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the mid 17th century possibly at Tintern Furnace in the Forest of Dean area of Wales.
Current location: in private hands, Sedlescombe, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
- 1640-50s Dean series
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952
Description: Rectangular joined to pediment by symmetrical scrolls; fillet edging with embattling inside; shield, helm, crest, supporters and mantling of the city of Bristol; date split by bottom of shield; inscription in an oval cartouche below shield; rectangular side extensions with twisted rope edging; initial on each extension.
Notes: The mismatched ‘3’ in the date is likely to have replaced a ‘1’ or ‘2’. The pattern-maker was also responsible for carving royal coats of arms in three West Country churches and a small number of series of firebacks in the first quarter of the 17th century.
Inscription: T H / 16 34 / ARMES BRISTOLL
Arms: City of Bristol
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with detached pediment (shape)
- fillet and rope (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- planklines
- extension panels
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1634 possibly in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Civic firebacks
- Bristol armorial series