Metadata: Metadata
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: around 1580
- Inventory Number:
- 1959-S31/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Plaque de poêle
- Iconography:
- Mythological scene
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 82 x 49.5 x 2 cm
- Inscription(s):
- Date (1580)
- Inscription (DEP)
- Inscription (A78)
- Inscription (Schrank 57)
- Description:
- Right pan plate depicting the Judgement of Paris, Mercury, in the costume of a lansquenet, with a winged helmet and the caduceus, standing on the left in front of Paris, who is holding an apple, is explaining to Paris what he is wanted to do. In front of him, the 3 naked goddesses. Above, Love flies and shoots an arrow. At the bottom, 2 medallions representing a man's head and a woman's head with their hair done in the Spanish fashion of the time, all under a ‘Renaissance’ aracture and shells.
- Geographical Reference:
- Place of use: Luxembourg
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- This object has been retro-inventoried. The circumstances of its arrival in the collection are currently not known. If you have any information that might be useful to the work’s provenance, please contact digital@mnaha.etat.lu .
- Acquisition date:
- 1959
- 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:
- 12.03.2026
