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971
Description: Canted rectangle; fillet edging (top and sides); top centre, date between two 'rose' stamps.
Notes: The four nuts are to secure the fireback to two legs.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- canted rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
- plants
Manufactured: in 1658 in England.
Current location: Red Lodge, Park Row, Bristol, England.
Museum number: NX412 (part of the Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives museum group)
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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245
Description: Arched rectangular shaped with narrow shoulders; fillet edging; date in individual numerals across arch.
Notes: A larger version is different in the spacing of the numerals and the proportions of the plate. For another casting of this fireback see J. Every Collection catalogue no. 20 (Sussex Archaeological Society library, Barbican House, Lewes, Sussex).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Lytes Cary Manor, Charleton Mackrell, Somerset, England.
Museum number: NT/LYT/M/40 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1658 arched series
- Date only firebacks
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295
Description: Five-facetted arched shape; ovolo-moulded edging comprising two separate lengths of moulding repeated to form sides and arch; shield of Hickman (per pale indented argent and azure) impaling Nevile (?gules a saltire argent) within repeated laurel leaves inside a scrolled cartouche; date top centre.
Notes: William Hickman of Old Hall, Gainsborough, 2nd Baronet (1629-82), married Elizabeth Neville of Mattersey, Nottinghamshire, c.1652. The multi-facetted arch suggests a connection with a series of firebacks cast in the Weald which are also associated with the Nevills (see 1589 series), although they are of earlier date.
Inscription: 1658
Arms: Hickman impaling Neville; Sir William Hickman
- Decoration tags:
- multi-facetted arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 in England.
Current location: Gainsborough Old Hall, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks
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1138
Description: Arched rectangular shape; twisted rope edging (top and sides); upper centre, date between shoulders of arch.
Notes: The numerals have been crudely impressed, probably using a pointed implement.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 in the Forest of Dean area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Hartpury, Gloucestershire, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
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950
Description: Rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); date top centre.
Notes: The style of the numerals is identical to those seen on another fireback, indicating a common source.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly at Tintern Furnace in the Forest of Dean area of Wales.
Current location: in private hands, Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1640-50s Dean series
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337
Description: Arched rectangular shaped; ovolo moulded edging (top and sides); central stamp of a carved bracket figure of a bearded man in a loincloth and cap; date and monogram in arch, split by figure, ‘T’ elevated; rhyme in capitals across centre, letters carved on strips, split by figure; date and initials as individual stamps.
Notes: The twin miseries of a smoky house and a scolding wife are mentioned several times in literature. The dress of the figure suggests work as a miner, possibly linking this back with the Forest of Dean. Variants exist without date or initials, or with other dates. A version of this fireback with the date 1660, instead of 1658, was noted at Bellamy's Farm, Longney, Gloucestershire in 1912 (Notes and Queries, 11th ser., 6 (Sep 1912), p.230.).
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1658 LTB; ·FROM ·A·-·SMOKY ·LIFE·/ AND·A SCOVL DING·WIFE·/ALL MEN THAT-DOE·ME·SE/ TAKE·PETIE- AND·DELIVER ME
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
- humans
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly at Tintern Furnace in the Forest of Dean area of Wales.
Current location: in private hands, Huddington, Worcestershire, England.
Citation: Chambers, L. H., 26 Sep 1912, 'Fireback: Relic of 1660', Notes and Queries, 11th series, 6, p. 230.
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1072
Description: Rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging (top and sides); date top centre; initials split below date.
Notes: The initials are believed to relate to Thomas Hughes (1604-64), MP and Governor of Chepstow Castle, who lived at Moynes Court, Mathern; a slightly larger variant of the same date but without initials has been noted; the right edge is concealed behind stonework.
Inscription: 1658 / T H
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly at Tintern Furnace in the Forest of Dean area of Wales.
Current location: in private hands, Mathern, Monmouthshire, Wales.
- Attached to series:
- 1640-50s Dean series
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532
Description: Arched rectangular shaped with narrow shoulders; fillet edging; date in individual numerals across arch.
Notes: A smaller version is different in the spacing of the numerals and the proportions of the plate.
Inscription: 1658
- Decoration tags:
- arched rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1658 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/85 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 1658 arched series
- Date only firebacks