Metadata: Fireback
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: around 1729
- Inventory Number:
- 1937-001/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Cigogne
- Couleuvre
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 93.000000 x 107.500000 x 2.500000 cm
- Description:
- Fireback with the coat of arms of Abbé Scheuppe d'Echternach (1728-1751). Azure, a stork proper holding in its beak a garter snake of the same, standing on a vert compartment and accompanied on the sinister side by a golden sun.
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- Purchase
- Acquisition date:
- 1937
- 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:
- 11.03.2026
