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47
Description: Rectangular with canted top corners; ovolo-moulded edging (except base); top centre, cherub face and wings; below, date separated by initials in triad on either side of which a stag statant on a chapeau.
Notes: The cherub is similar, but not identical to those on a fireback, of 1713, from Ashburnham, and the layout and edging are also similar.
Inscription: 17 ICI [triad] 30
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with canted top corners (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
- animals
- humans
Manufactured: in 1730 possibly at Ashburnham Furnace in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Date & initials firebacks
- Miscellaneous stamp firebacks
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1292
Description: Arched rectangular shape; Greek Key border with fillet edges; in high relief, in front of swagged drapery, the shield of, quarterly, France quartering England, Scotland and Ireland, surrounded by a Garter, and surmounted by a ducal coronet; below, the inscription in capitals.
Notes: The use of the Greek Key design as a border is believed to be unique for an English fireback. Although somewhat indistinct, the use of the Stuart royal arms and the ducal coronet can be explained by the fact that the fireback was one of a group cast for the 2nd Duke of Richmond, whose father, the 1st duke, was the illegitimate son of Charles II and Louise de Kéroualle. The Richmond arms were differenced from the Stuart royal arms by the addition of a bordure compony (the detail of which is not distinct on this casting). Sowley Furnace, near Beaulieu in Hampshire, was owned in 1732 by John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, and was let to Miles Troughton. An identical fireback also at Goodwood is dated 1731 and a similar, but smaller, variant of this fireback, is dated 1732.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE / SOWLEY MDCCXXX
Arms: Duke of Richmond
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- fillet (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- heraldic
- armorial
- royal
- text
Manufactured: in 1730 at Sowley Furnace, Beaulieu in the New Forest area of England.
Current location: Goodwood House, Westhampnett, West Sussex, England.
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501
Description: Arched rectangular shape; ovolo-moulded edging; central crest of a gryphon's head couped, its wings displayed; above, the initials, the 'S' above the 'P's; below, the date.
Notes: The crest is likely to be that of Peter Short of Lindfield, Sussex, who married Philadelphia Burrell in 1704.
Inscription: PSP / 1730
Arms: Short of Lindfield
- Decoration tags:
- rectangular with round arch (shape)
- ovolo (edging)
- carved stamps
- individual letters
- individual numbers
- heraldic
- text
Manufactured: in 1730 possibly in the Weald area of England.
Current location: in private hands, Newick, East Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal firebacks
- Date & initials firebacks
- 1730s-40s, date & initial series