Style Louis XIV / Ref.10561
Important antique cast iron fireback with pillars of Hercules, dated 1713
Dimensions
Width 35'' ⅜ 90cm
Height 35'' ⅞ 91cm
Depth: 2'' 5cm
Origin:
Dated 1713.
Status:
One crack in the lower part (see pictures).
This fireback is dated of 1713, during the reign of Louis XIV. It represents the Pilllars of Hercules.
The Pillars of Hercules is the name given in the Roman antiquity to the mountains which bordered the Strait of Gibraltar and which symbolized the frontier between the civilized world and an unknown or dangerous world.
The Pillars received their name from one of the twelve works of Hercules, during which he had to recover the oxen of Geryon, a triple-body monster, in order to bring them back to Eurystheus, who offered them to Hera in sacrifice.
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