Fireback With The Arms Of Jean De Séraucourt (67 X 66 Cm)

17th century fireback, with the arms of Jean de Séraucourt or Sérocourt (? -1633), from a Lorraine family, knight of the Teutonic order, Commander of Ruez, Saint-Nicolas de Langres and Thors from 1597 to his death. The latter was a commandery whose origin dates back to the Templars and united with that of Corgebin by the Hospitallers around the middle of the 14th century which remains its capital and main house. It was confiscated during the French Revolution and disappeared in 1791. Blazon: Argent with a strip of sand accompanied by seven billets of azure, four in chief and three in point. As a crest, a helmet adorned with lambrequins and surmounted by a pair of ox horns and a cross in its center. Its coat of arms is surrounded by a wreath of laurels and undoubtedly of palms on a bundle of flags topped with two laurel branches in saltire linked by warlike attributes. A fall of war trophies, on both sides, composed of weapons, breastplates, helmets, gauntlets, drums, shields to an anchored cross, complete its decoration. Its weight is 66 kg. Similar plaque acquired by the Troyes museum in 1894 under the reference 1028, page 226 of the 1905 monumental archeology catalog, see our last photo. Bibliography: CARPENTIER H., Fireplaces, Tome premier, F. DE NOBELE, Paris, 1967, page 316 N ° 885. PALASI P., heraldic firebacks, Gourcuff Gradenigo, Paris, page 82 N ° 55. You can visit our site: www.claudeaugustin.com