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Fireback

1901 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Early twentieth-century copy of a seventeenth-century fireback, plaster cast, painted black, showing a lion passant, a thistle, a crowned rose, a crowned fleur-de-lis and the date 1649. The cast is badly damaged along the top border with other damage to the surface lower down.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Painted plaster cast
Brief description
Copy of a 17th-century fireback, the original in the V&A's collection (Mus. no. 492-1901), plaster cast painted black showing a lion passant, a thistle, a crowned rose and a crowned fleur-de-lis. Badly damaged along the top border with other damage to the surface lower down.
Physical description
Early twentieth-century copy of a seventeenth-century fireback, plaster cast, painted black, showing a lion passant, a thistle, a crowned rose, a crowned fleur-de-lis and the date 1649. The cast is badly damaged along the top border with other damage to the surface lower down.
Dimensions
  • Height: 68cm
  • Width: 80cm
  • Depth: 5cm
Style
Production typeCopy
Marks and inscriptions
1649 (Date of original)
Object history
Copied as an artist's model in 1901, most likely by the V&A Reproductions Department, from an original acquired a year earlier.
Associated object
492-1901 (Original)
Collection
Accession number
REPRO.1902-142

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Record createdSeptember 22, 2008
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