Fireback
1901 (made)
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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
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| 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. |
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| Production type | Copy |
| 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) |
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| Accession number | REPRO.1902-142 |
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| Record created | September 22, 2008 |
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