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BRITISH FIREBACKS THE PROPERTY OF A LADY ( LOTS 516-542 ) MANY FIREBACKS WERE MADE IN THE WEALD OF SUSSEX. IRON ORE WAS MINED LOCALLY AND THE AREA WAS THICK WITH FOREST AND WOODLAND. LOCALLY MINED IRON-ORE WAS SMELTED IN WATER-POWERED BLAST FURNACES TO MAKE IRON FOR CANNON, DOMESTIC UTENSILS AND FIREBACKS. FIREBACKS WERE CAST BY POURING MOLTEN IRON INTO A SAND MOULD. THE MOULD WAS CREATED BY FIRST MAKING A WOODEN REPLICA OF THE DESIRED DESIGN AND PRESSING THIS BLANK INTO A TRAY OF DAMP SAND. VERY EARLY EXAMPLES HAD SMALL OBJECTS PRESSED INTO THE SAND, EVEN PIECES OF ROPE TO MAKE A DATE OR INITIALS. BOTH THE ANNE OF CLEVES HOUSE MUSEUM, LEWES, AND HASTINGS MUSEUM HAVE FINE REFERENCE COLLECTIONS OF WEALDEN FIREBACKS. JEREMY HODGKINSON, THE AUTHOR OF THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK BRITISH CAST-IRON FIREBACKS OF THE 16TH TO MID 18TH CENTURIES 2010, WILL BE AVAILABLE TO SIGN COPIES OF HIS BOOK ON MONDAY 29TH NOVEMBER.

AN ENGLISH CAST-IRON FIREBACK

MID 17TH CENTURY

Details

AN ENGLISH CAST-IRON FIREBACK
MID 17TH CENTURY
CAST IN HIGH RELIEF WITH THE ARMS OF THE EARLS OF HUNTINGDON
36 X 47 IN. (91 X 120 CM.)

Literature

ILLUSTRATED IN J. HODGKINSON, BRITISH CAST-IRON FIREBACKS, 2010, P.159

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