Antique Biblical Cast Iron Fireback

Beautifully decorated and decorative French fireback in the Louis XV Style. Fireback show wear on the bottom and has been used.  

A nice and tall decorative fireback or backsplash. This was originally a sides of an old cast iron stove from the 17th century. In the early 19th century these decorative stove whe...

Superb tal cast iron fireback or backsplash. This beautifully detailed fireback was originally a piece of a 17th century stove. These were taken apart and sold separately. Beaut...

Beautifully detailed and large antique cast iron fireback. This fireback shows very well detailed architectural columns with decorative finials. Excellent condition, very usabl...

A nice and tall decorative fireback or backsplash. This was originally a sides of an old cast iron stove from the 17th century. In the early 19th century these decorative stove whe...

Lovely French cast iron Louis XV / Rococo fireback showing Goddess Diana bathing. Diana is the Goddess of modest hunting, she only kills what she can ...

18th century French cast iron fireplace back or fireback. Handsome rare themed 18th century French cast iron fireback or fireplace back or fireplace screen with Etruscan theme. Can be used in a fire place, in a kitchen as a backsplash, mounted behind a stove or outdoors in a Summer kitchen.

Italian fireplace cast iron fireback with fleur-de-lys relief pattern.

Antique cast iron fireback. Minor wear on the bottom of the fireback.

Antique cast iron fireback.

After a fireback once commissioned by Nicolas Fouquet, for his Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, this large iron fireback was cast in France during the late 1600s/early 1700s (the original was from 1661). Fouquet was a powerful financial advisor in the 17th century, with close ties to both Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin, as well as Louis XIV himself. At the young age of 19, Fouquet was appointed by Richelieu as “councilor of the Parliament of Metz”, an important city in northeast France. Fouquet would eventually rise to become Superintendent of Finances (Surintendant des finances) of France until he was imprisoned by Louis XIV in 1661 (Fouquet’s extravagant displays of wealth conflicted with the heavy debt incurred by the crown, causing Louis XIV to believe that Fouquet was embezzling). Interestingly, Fouquet was arrested unsuspectingly by d’Artagnan, who would later be fictionalized in the Alexandre Dumas novel, Les Trois Mousquetaires (known in English as The Three Musketeers). Our large and thick fireback features military and musical motifs flanking an oval coat of arms medallion. The overall shape of the fireback is rectangular, with an arched top that is filled by an open crown that tops the heraldic display, which consists of a banded husked wreath surrounding four scrolled “F’s” that are pierced by an arrow. There is a crinkled ribbon at the bottom that folds over the wreath and trails down below. On the right side of the medallion is a five-string lyre in front of laurel and acanthus leaves. To the left of the coat of arms is a crested helmet over a sword sheath...

Antique France cast iron fireback.