Firebacks

Description: Rectangular with inclined sides, joined by scrolls to a pedimented top; twisted rope edging (top and sides); Garter enclosing the Tudor royal arms, with crowned lion and dragon supporters, helm with chapeau and lion crest, and mantling; rectangular date compartment at base; initials either side of crest.

Notes: The detached pediment is stylistically typical of the late-16th and early-17th centuries. The use of a chapeau or cap of maintenance in place of a crown above the helm is rare in this period. There is an excrescence on the casting over the jaws of the dragon caused by the pouring of the molten metal disturbing the sand mould.

Inscription: E R / Garter motto / 160[?0]

Arms: Tudor royal - Elizabeth I