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1232
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging on top and sides; date placed slightly right of centre near top.
Notes: A similar fireback with slightly different proportions has the same date using the same numerals.
Inscription: 1679
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location:, not known.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1679 Wealden series
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386
Description: Rectangular; twisted rope edging on top and sides; date placed centrally near top.
Notes: A similar fireback with slightly different proportions has the same date using the same numerals. Formerly at the Anchor Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex.
Inscription: 1679
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- rope (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual numbers
- text
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Anne of Cleves House, Southover High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, England.
Museum number: LH000.910 (part of the Sussex Archaeological Society museum group)
Citation: Dawson, C., 1903, 'Sussex Iron Work and Pottery', Sussex Archaeological Collections, 46, pp. 1-54.
- Attached to series:
- Date only firebacks
- 1679 Wealden series
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481
Description: Rectangular; cavetto edging all round; seated lion on right, its tail rising above its back and its head turned to face the viewer; a seated sheep on the left; at the bottom, a plain rectangular extension panel; date split across top.
Notes: Intended to represent the saying, ‘The lion shall lie down with the lamb’, a popular misquotation of Isaiah 11: 6.
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- extension panels
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Maresfield, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
- Old Testament & Apocrypha firebacks
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525
Description: Arched rectangular central panel with bead edging; pictorial scene of two putti bent over a central anvil, with a third putto above; below are martial symbols (cannon, banners etc.); in the arch the word 'PAX', and in the shoulders of the panel, the date in two parts; arched rectangular boreder with fillet edging, and foliage draped from the top; on top, a pomegranate to which ascends a serpent on each side, with a further pomegranate on each shoulder of the plate.
Notes: The scene may be intended to represent the infant Vulcan.
Inscription: PAX / 16 79
- Decoration tags:
- 'Dutch' (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- mythological
- text
- humans
- objects
Manufactured: in 1679 possibly in the Siegerland area of Germany.
Current location: Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England.
Museum number: NT/PET/M/79 (part of the National Trust museum group)
- Attached to series:
- 'Dutch' Miscellaneous Firebacks
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624
Description: Rectangular; cavetto edging all round; seated lion on right, its tail rising above its back and its head turned to face the viewer; a seated sheep on the left; date split across top.
Notes: Intended to represent the saying, ‘The lion shall lie down with the lamb’, a popular misquotation of Isaiah 11: 6.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: 1679
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular (shape)
- cavetto (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- individual numbers
- pictorial
- biblical
- text
- animals
Manufactured: in 1679 in the Weald area of England.
Current location: Mark Ripley Forge & Fireplaces, Northbridge Street, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Small cavetto series
- Old Testament & Apocrypha firebacks