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822
Description: Repeated rectangular panels each bearing an anchor with coiled rope between two fleurs de lys, below which are two roses and a grape bunch beneath; the two rectangular side panels each comprise a vertical stem with six grape bunches surmounted by a smaller bunch; above, a semicircular arch contains the initials between two roses as in the central panel, with the date above; where the arch meets the central panel there is an arc across each corner; the top and sides panels are edged with simulated twisted rope.
Notes: One of an unusual series formed from separate panels arranged, in this instance, with each vertical panel repeated.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1588 / IFC
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- simulated rope (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- heraldic
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in 1588 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Mayfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series
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496
Description: Arched rectangular shape; ovolo moulded edging; plain panel at bottom; Tudor royal shield, garter, crown, motto and supporters (crowned lion and dragon), temp. Elizabeth I; the top of the lion's crown and the dragon's ear overlap the edging.
Notes: Another version has a rose and portcullis either side of the crown, and the top of the lion's crown and the dragon's ear do not overlap the edging.
Inscription: [Garter] HONI SOIT QVI MAL E PENSE / [motto] DIEV ET MON DROIT.
Arms: Tudor royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- planklines
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the mid to late 16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Michelham Priory, Arlington, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.999 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Tudor royal armorial firebacks
- Tudor royal armorial (plain) series
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499
Description: Arched rectangle; dentil ovolo-moulded edging; shield, supporters, coronet, helm, crest, mantling and motto of Viscount Montague; quarterly Browne, Albini, Fitzalan, Fitzalan of Clare, Warren, Maltravers, Nevill, Montagu, Monthermer, Inglethorpe, Burghe, Delapole, Bradeston, Tiptoft, Charleton and Kent (Plantagenet); supporters: two bears collared and chained; the crest: an eagle, the wings elevated and displayed.
Notes: The arms of either the 2nd (Anthony-Maria Browne, succ. 1592-1629) or 3rd viscount (Francis Browne succ. 1629-1682) - the 1st viscount was a Knight of the Garter and no garter is shown.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: VERITATE DUCE [Be led by Truth]
Arms: Viscount Montague
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- dentil ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late 16th to early 17th century in England.
Current location: Cowdray House, Midhurst, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Cowdray firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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1211
Description: Arched rectangular shape: ovolo-moulded edging; pictorial scene of St George in armour, mounted on a horse, spearing a dragon which lies beneath the horse; in each top corner, a rose.
Notes: A portrayal of St George and the Dragon in bold relief that owes something to the famous modelling by Benedetto Pistrucci of 1817; however, the figure of St George is disproportionately large in relation to the horse.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- mythological
- animals
- humans
- plants
Manufactured: in the 20th century in England.
Current location: Thornhill Galleries, 43-45 Wellington Crescent, New Malden, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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501
Description: Arched rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; central crest of a gryphon's head couped, its wings displayed; above, the initials, the 'S' above the 'P's; below, the date.
Notes: The crest is likely to be that of Peter Short of Lindfield, Sussex, who married Philadelphia Burrell in 1704.
Inscription: PSP / 173...
Arms: Short of Lindfield
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 18th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Newick, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1730s-40s, date & initial series 2
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502
Description: Arched rectangular shape; embattled cavetto-moulded edging; shield, garter, supporters and crown of James I of England; a branch sprouting a rose and leaf to the left of the crown, a branch sprouting a thistle and leaf to the right; initials at top, split by crown; date below shield.
Notes: Similar in style to the 1619 series, this plate has larger rose and thistle plant stamps and was probably designed by the same pattern-maker
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: I R / 16 21
Arms: English Stuart royal - James I
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- embattled cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
Manufactured: in 1621 in England.
Current location: Newick Park Hotel, Newick, East Sussex, England.
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1144
Description: Composite; arched rectangular shaped, armorial fireback, cavetto edging, with Stuart Royal arms, garter, supporters, crown and motto, and 1662 date above crown; this overlies a rectangular plate with fillet edging; top centre in the space each side of the central shield, an initial letter - A to left, B to right - each above a fleur-de-lys, its stem terminating in a small buckle.
Notes: Several firebacks have incorporated the same Stuart royal shield, which probably originally dated to 1619, but with the date altered. A similar fireback, but without the initials and fleurs-de-lys, dated 1661, and reputed to have come from the Totsey, the old guildhall at the market cross in Gloucester, is illustrated in Ames, 1980, 23; possibly the same fireback was reported by the late David Bick to be at The Grange, Minsterworth, Gloucestershire (demolished in the late 1960s).
Inscription: 16 62 / [Garter motto (illeg.)] / A B
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- carved pattern panels
- individual letters
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1662 possibly in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Norton, Wiltshire, England.
Citation: Ames, A., 1980, Collecting Cast Iron (Ashbourne, Moorland Publishing).
Citation: Badeni, J., 22 Sep 1983, 'Whose Fireback?' [letter], Country Life, 174, 4492, p. 772.
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1141
Description: Arched rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); date stamp, 1634, in arch; initials, EH, separated by a cross, below date.
Notes: The same date stamp has been noted on another fireback; the cross between the initials may have an apotropaic purpose.
Inscription: 1634 /E + H
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- individual letters
- date stamp
- apotropaic
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1634 in England.
Current location: Newark Park, Ozleworth, Gloucestershire, England.
(part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1634 stamp series
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508
Description: Arched rectangular shape; no edging; top centre, crowned capital ‘A’; date divided at top corners of plate; single six-pointed star outside date.
Notes: Earl’s coronet denotes the Earl of Ashburnham, furnace owner; the furnace was blown out for the last time in late February 1813, this fireback being reputedly the last casting from a Wealden furnace. One of a small series of firebacks cast in the early-19th century for farms on the Ashburnham estate.
Inscription: * 18 A 13 *
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- objects
Manufactured: in 1813 at Ashburnham furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Penhurst, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Ashburnham late series
- Date & initials firebacks
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563
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cavetto edging; Stuart royal arms of England (quarterly, 1st and 4th, France and England, 2nd Scotland and 3rd Ireland) with garter, crown, motto and supporters; initials either side of crown base.
Notes: As in others of this series the design overlaps the edging.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: C R / ...SOIT QVI MAL Y ...
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/57 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
- Stuart royal armorial firebacks