Metadata: Fireback
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: around 1696
- Inventory Number:
- 1959-S60/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Holy Family
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 101 x 114 x 3 cm
- Description:
- Fireback representing the Holy Family. Joseph is holding a staff decorated with flowers. Jesus is leaning on a stick. This probably refers to the flight into Egypt. God the Father is above on a cloud, seemingly guiding the Holy Family. The Holy Spirit is represented by a dove. At the top, the date 1696.
- 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:
- Approximate 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
