Antique Fireback / Backsplash

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...

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 ...

- Antique fireback or backsplash - Drinking During the Corn Harvest- A nice decorative, detailed and tall fireback/ backsplash. Displaying a harvester ...

Nice tall and decorative cast iron fireback or backsplash. Very usable dimensions, can be used in a real fire or as a backsplash. Great patina and nice patina. Sold by Schermerhorn...

An very nice thick casted antique fireback / backsplash. Nice decorative fireback with the Arms of France and Navarre held by two lions. Superb qu...

French fireback with two pillars, a floral decoration and the date of production 1811. This product weighs more than 65 kg / 143 lbs. All our products that weigh 66 kg / 146 lbs or ...

French fireback produced in honor of the marriage of Francois and Marie in 1772. The style of the fireback is Louis XV and it is from that period. The fireback is made of cast iron ...

19th century French neoclassical fireback with the goddess Ceres. Goddess of agriculture (particularly grain) and the maternal love. Ceres is flanked by ...

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...

19th century French Napoleon III period fireback with cupids harvesting. The fireback is made of cast iron and has a natural brown patina. Upon request it can be made black / pewter ...

18th Century French Marriage Fireback, dated 1797. All our products that weigh 66 kg / 146 lbs or more are shipped as standard door-to-door freight. The prices of freight have incre...