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1058
Description: Rectangular; cavetto-moulded edging with an astragal inside; baroque-style shield of Montagu impaling Wriothesley.
Notes: Ralph Montagu (1638-1709), afterwards Earl of Montagu and later Duke, married Elizabeth Percy, née Wriothesley, daughter of the 4th Earl of Southampton, in 1673. She died in 1690; thus the fireback dates to between 1673 and 1690; Blazon: (Montagu) Argent, three lozenges conjoined in fess gules, a border sable; (Wriothesley) Azure, a cross or between four falcons close argent.
Arms: Montagu impaling Wriothesley
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
Manufactured: in the late-17th century probably at Sowley Furnace, Beaulieu in England.
Current location: Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
- Wriothesley firebacks
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1050
Description: Rectangular; triple-moulded edging (top and sides); top left, initials RKI in triad; top right, date.
Notes: The initials probably relate to a husband and wife, the top initial being that of their surname. Formerly part of the J. H. Every collection.
Inscription: RKI [triad] 1683
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- complex, furniture-derived (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1683 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.921 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1660s-90s Wealden series
- Date & initials firebacks
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823
Description: Arched shape with ovolo egg-and-dart edging; crown surmounting a shield, a quartered shield with an escutcheon impaling a crowned lion rampant with an escutcheon; text along the bottom.
Notes: The arms have not been identified; LOVEN is the town of Leuven, capital of the province of Brabant, which, in 1662, was in the Spanish Netherlands.
Inscription: LOVEN 1662
- Decoration tags:
- arched (shape)
- ovolo, egg and dart (edging)
- carved pattern panels
- armorial
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in 1662 possibly in the Ardennes area of Belgium.
Current location: in private hands, Mayfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Foreign armorial firebacks
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573
Description: Rectangular with fillet sides and bottom; scrolled foliage on outside edges; date in narrow rectangular panel at bottom; central pictorial representation of four historical figures (see below), three male in mid-17th century armour, and one female; tripple arched top formed of rococo scrolls, a putto forming the middle arch.
Notes: The inscription may relate to the defeat of the Spanish at s'Hertogenbosch (den Bosch - ENDE BUSH) in 1629, and Wesel. von den Driesch states that the figures, from left to right, are: Prinz Fredrik Henrik of Oranje, his daughter, Luise Henriette, Prince Maurice of Nassau, and the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg, who married Luise Henriette. Foreign craftsmanship may account for the incorrect spelling of Dutch names.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: PRESNTZI VAN WESEL ENDE BVSH / 1667
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with three arches (shape)
- complex individual (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- pictorial
- historical
- royal
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1667 possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/64 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
- Commemorative firebacks
