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1029
Description: Arched rectangular shape; cavetto-moulded edging; shield, supporters, earl's coronet and motto scroll.
Notes: The arms are of the Hyde family: azure, a chevron between three lozenges or; the supporters: two eagles, wings endorsed sable, ducally crowned and charged on the breast with a cross or; Edward Hyde (1609-74) was created earl of Clarendon in 1661. An excrescence over the sinister supporter indicates where the iron was poured clumsily into the open sand mould.
Arms: Hyde, earls of Clarendon
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the mid to late 17th century in England.
Current location: The Lygon Arms, High Street, Broadway, Worcestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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24
Description: Arched rectangular shaped with fillet and cavetto dentil moulding, and paternost bead edging inside; a lion rampant
Notes: Whole pattern. An unusually tall fireback in relation to its width.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- cavetto dentil (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- animals
Manufactured: in the 18th century in England.
Current location: Bateman's, Burwash, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/BAT/M/146 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous pattern firebacks
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224
Description: Composite; Arched rectangular shaped, armorial fireback, cavetto edging, with Stuart Royal arms, garter, supporters, crown and motto, and 1639 date above crown; this overlies a rectangular plate, with rope-effect, fillet edging; a pattern of four rosettes surrounding a fleur-de-lys, its stem terminating in a small buckle, is repeated on each side of the central armorial fireback, with the initials above; each rosette is stamped separately.
Notes: The armorial may originally have been one of the 1619 series. Formarly at Wonastow Court, Momouthshire
Inscription: 1639 / G / HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE / DIEV ET MO DROIT
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual letters
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1639 possibly in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 40.428 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
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229
Description: Rectangular with superimposed arch; embattled, cavetto moulded edging, with the top edge of the rectangle interrupted; shield, garter, crown, supporters and motto of the English Royal house of Stuart; rose and thistle plants above lion and unicorn supporters respectively; initials split by crown; date below garter.
Notes: A different version is at Newick Park, Sussex.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: I R / HONI S OIT QVI MAL Y ..ENSE / 16 19
Arms: English Stuart royal
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- embattled cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1619 in England.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 48.354/85 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
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234
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; cavetto moulded edging, scalloped top and sides; Prince of Wales’ badge of three ostrich feathers emerging through a coronet; symmetrical scroll with elaborate swirls, bearing motto; monogrammed initials at bottom, left of centre.
Notes: The scalloped edging and RN monogram have been noted on other firebacks, suggesting a common pattern maker. Formerly from Burwash, Sussex.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: ICH DIEN / RN
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- scalloped cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- monogram
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in the early to mid 17th century in England.
Current location: National History Museum, St Fagans, Glamorgan, Wales.
Museum number: 20.177/1 (part of the Welsh National History Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- RN series
- Prince of Wales firebacks
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242
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; astragal edging; shield bearing a saltire, beneath a baron’s coronet; date and initials split by shield.
Notes: The shield, coronet and initials may be those of George Nevill, 12th Baron Bergavenny (1665-95); the Neville arms has a rose in the centre but if the shield were a painted carving, the rose may have been painted and not carved.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 16 72 / G B
Arms: George Nevill, 12th baron Bergavenny
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1672 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Fulham, London, England.
- Attached to series:
- Bergavenny firebacks
- Personal armorial firebacks
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815
? x ? mmImage subject to copyrightDescription: Arched rectangular shape with crown, top centre; central peacock, its tail feathers displayed, with two other peacocks below, their tail feathers down; name across top of arch, split by initial, R; date ato bottom below tail feathers.
Notes: Manufactured by Seager's of Dartford, Kent
Inscription: CHARLES FRANCIS / R / 1967
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1967 in England.
Current location:.
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
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245
Description: Arched rectangular shaped with narrow shoulders; fillet edging; date in individual numerals across arch.
Notes: A larger version is different in the spacing of the numerals and the proportions of the plate. For another casting of this fireback see J. Every Collection catalogue no. 20 (Sussex Archaeological Society library, Barbican House, Lewes, Sussex).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Lytes Cary Manor, Charleton Mackrell, Somerset, England.
Museum number: NT/LYT/M/40 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1658 arched series
- Date only firebacks
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957
Description: Upon a rectangular base plinth, an arched rectangular, ovolo-moulded panel containing a draped cloth (disclosing on the reverse the arms of Duras) upon which two oval shields are surmounted by a ducal coronet, and encircled by the collars of the Orders of St Michel and Saint-Esprit. Behind the cloth are crossed batons of a Marshal of France; on each side are flattened S-scrolls with tassels.
Notes: In all probability the arms of Jean-Baptiste de Durfort, Duc de Duras (1684-1770), created Marshal of France in 1741.
Arms: Durfort, duc de Duras
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
Manufactured: in the early to mid 18th century in France.
Current location: Chateau de Duras, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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247
Description: A modified recasting of a variant of the ‘Armada’ fireback, with initials changed to IK, a single anchor panel, and the addition of a plain base and borders, the latter each with a twisted rope saltire, upper middle.
Notes: It is likely that an original four-panel fireback has been used to recast a copy with additional side and base panels; the saltires may have apotropaic significance. A second fireback at the house cast in the 19th century is identical but for being 1% smaller all round, and has a full-width extension on top bearing four symmetrical rope saltires, the outer two larger than the inner two. The first example was used to make the second.
Inscription: 1588 / IK
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- simulated rope (edging)
- simple stamps
- carved pattern panels
- extension panels
- apotropaic
- text
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the 17th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Chawton House, Chawton, Hampshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series