Metadata: Metadata
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: after 16XX
- Inventory Number:
- 1959-S33/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Man
- Woman
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 53.5 x 77 x 2.5 cm
- Inscription(s):
- Date (1576)
- Description:
- Fireback with various scenes. The scenes are separated in the middle by a Corinthian column. At the edges, a bearded man in drapery, his arms crossed, stands on a plinth carried by a child or a dwarf. To the left, a draped woman looks into a mirror. This may be the goddess Venus, who was often depicted with a mirror. On the right, a woman holding a sword and scales. This is Justice. The two women are framed. Justice is standing under a bow. Below the women, the date 1576 is inscribed.
- 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:
- 11.03.2026
