Metadata: Fireback
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: 1575 - 1600
- Inventory Number:
- 1941-071/003
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Allegory
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 78.5 x 65.5 x 2 cm
- Description:
- Fireplace plaque, four-figure allegory: Justice, Infidelity, Fidelity and Injustice. The upper figures are nude; the two lower ones wear draped costumes. One of the women (Justice) holds a set of scales; the other three are accompanied by dogs. The banners bear the inscriptions V EEN SCHADE DAT TROWE is LICHTER DAN EEN PLUM. (It is a great pity that Fidelity is lighter than a feather). ICH JAGE OM DIE WINDEN OFT ICH TROWE KONDEN VINDEN. (I search everywhere for fidelity). TROWE IS POET ONTROWE VERDT VERHAVEN (?) (Fidelity is dead; infidelity is detested). ONTROWE LOEPT OVERAL (Infidelity runs rampant). The four compartments of the taque are separated by a globe, surmounted by a cross. The example in the Nancy Museum bears the date 1597 near this globe.
- Geographical Reference:
- Place of use: Luxembourg
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Collection of the Musée national d'archéologie, d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg (MNAHA)
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tom Lucas
- Metadata last updated on:
- 18.03.2026
