Cast Iron Fireback
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Cast Iron Fireback
Dated 1658, initialed LTB and with the phrase From A Smoky Life And A Scouldinge Wife All Men That Doe-Me-Se Take Pettie And Deliver Me.
Height 24 1/2 in. by Width 27 1/2 in.
Please note that this lot may be of 20th century origin.
An identical fireback is illustrated in Rupert Gentle and Rachael Feild, Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antiques Collectors' Club Ltd, 1994), p. 333, no. 3 and Jeremy Hodgkinson, British Cast-Iron Firebacks of the 16th and 17th Centuries, (Worth, Crawley: Hodgersbooks, 2010), p. 78, no. 61.
