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932
Description: Carved wooden fireback pattern. Canted arched rectangular shape with cavetto-moulded astragal edging; coronet in arch; oval shield with a crowned lion lion rampant, supported two griffons reguardant, the whole within a cartouche, the bottom of which terminates in two swirls between which is a human mask.
Notes: Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552-1630) was a French poet and writer.
Arms: Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigné
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto arched rectangular (shape)
- astragal with cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
Manufactured: in the early 17th century in France.
Current location:, U. S. A..
Citation: Carpentier, H., 1912, Plaques de Cheminées, Paris.
- Attached to series:
- Patterns
- Personal armorial firebacks
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603
Description: Arched rectangular shaped, the arch linked to the rectangle by cavetto curves; cavetto edging ending in two opposed spirals at top; initials below spirals; date below initials; otherwise plain.
Notes: Probably cast from a carved, edged board, with the initials and date added separately. A copy.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: IH / 1678
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1678 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Banbury, Oxfordshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Small arch series
- Date & initials firebacks
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418
Description: Cavetto-arched rectangular central panel with bead-and-pellet edging, head and robed shoulders of a laureated man in left profile; cavetto-arched rectangular border with cavetto-moulded edging and arrangement of outward-facing acanthus leaves; on top, scallops on shoulders of border with cornucopiae over arch.
Notes: A pastiche of the 'Dutch' style of fireback. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
- Decoration tags:
- cavetto arched rectangular (shape)
- bead-and-pellett (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- humans
Manufactured: in the early 18th century in England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: 1944.24.090 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks