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1119
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with 'nutshell' over fillet edging; pictorial image of a partially clothed female figure, holding an upraised wreath in her left hand, standing on a ground, with a gadrooned vase containing flowers and leaves to the right, and above swagged drapery and sun rays; arched rectangular fillet border with descending leaves and flowers suspended from a wreath, top centre, and a wreath in each top corner; on top, mirrored sea monsters; bottom centre, logo formed of a pair of dividers in a cartouche between swirling fronds.
Notes: The figure is an allegorical representation of Agriculture, one of the Iconologia originally published by Cesare Ripa in 1613. A modern casting.
Copies of this fireback are known.
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- allegorical
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in the late-17th to early-18th century in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- British 'Dutch' style firebacks
- Agriculture firebacks
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1068
Description: Arched shape with forward-facing 'wings', which splay outwards towards the base, curved to follow the shape of the main panel; central panel with stylised tree decoration surmounted with a scallop shell between six 'leaves' (one damaged).
Notes: This small, but unusual, casting was probably cast in an open box mould as the upcast (reverse) side of the casting shows evidence of being sand-treated. Only a very small number of such castings are known. Depth 200mm.
- Decoration tags:
- free-standing (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- plants
Manufactured: in the late-17th to early-18th century in England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Free-standing firebacks
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847
Description: Originally rectangular; two identical panels, each with braid edging, a vine standard with six bunches of grapes and a cluster at the top.
Notes: One of an unusual series formed from separate panels arranged, in this instance, with repeated panel; fire-damaged, hence the distorted shape. Recovered after the fire at Nymans, Handcross, Sussex in 1947.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- simulated rope (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- plants
Manufactured: in the late-16th century in the Weald area of England.
Current location: not known.
- Attached to series:
- Armada series