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1165
Description: Canted rectangular shape; braided rope edging (top and sides); top centre, initials 'TSE' in triad, above centred date.
Notes: The use of braided rope edging is unusual. The fireback was formerly in a house in Westmoreland associated with the Salkeld family.
Inscription: TSE [triad] / 1612
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- braided rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1612 in England.
Current location: Gwydir Castle, Trefriw, Conwy, Wales.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
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1192
Description: Canted rectangular shape; twisted rope edging formed of six lengths of 23cm (top and sides); top centre, rectangular panel with cavetto-moulded edging (left side missing) enclosing date between initials CT, all interposed with dots; below, eight shields of Ayloffe impaling Sulyard in three rows (3-2-3); Ayloffe: sable, a lion rampant Or, collared gules, between three crosses formy of the second; Sulyard: argent, a chevron gules between three pheons inverted sable.
Notes: William Ayloffe (c1535-1584) of Hornchurch, Essex, Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, married (c1560) Jane, dau. of Sir Eustace Sulyard, of Runwell, Essex. The initials 'CT' are likely to be those of Charles Tyler, a founder whose working life and that of his family have strong parallels with the occurrence of these firebacks. The excrescence affecting the left shield in the middle row and the blemish left of the middle shield in the top row are the result of inexpert ladling of the iron during casting. Previously at Smarden, Kent.
Inscription: C.1.6.1.2.T
Arms: Ayloffe impaling Sulyard (William Ayloffe of Bretons, Hornchurch)
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1612 possibly at Bedgebury Furnace, Goudhurst in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Crawley, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Ayloffe series
- Personal armorial firebacks