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1037
Description: Arched rectangular shape; fillet edging; central rose with stem and two branches with leaves, surmounted by a crown.
Notes: The rose is more naturalistic than heraldic. Criterion Auctions, Bath, 10 Sep 2016 lot 168.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- plants
- objects
Manufactured: in the early- to mid-17th century in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Miscellaneous royal firebacks
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165
Description: Rectangular with low, 3-facetted arch; ovolo edging; shield of the Goldsmiths’ Company: quarterly Gules and Azure, in the first and fourth quarters a Leopard's Head affrontée Or, in the second and third quarters a Covered Cup between in chief two Buckles fesswise all of the last; behind the shield is a scrolled escutcheon.
Notes: An unusually thick fireback. The Goldsmiths’ Company were granted arms in 1571.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Arms: Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with three-facetted arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late-16th to early-17th century possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: HASMG: 1978.15 (part of the Hastings Museum museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Livery company firebacks
