Metadata: Fireback
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: after 16XX
- Inventory Number:
- 1959-S40/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Greco-Roman goddess
- Foliage
- Grape
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 93.500000 x 100.000000 x 2.500000 cm
- Inscription(s):
- Inscription (QVI NTE)
- Description:
- Flora, goddess of flowers and gardens, beloved of Zephire and mother of Spring. The whole is graceful and has a charming decorative effect. The goddess is depicted from the front, with the inscription QVI NTE below. Around her is a plant decoration with bunches of grapes.
- Geographical Reference:
- Place of creation: Germany | Trier
- 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:
- Uncertain 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
