Stock No.10512
A cast-iron fireback with arched top depicting Joshua and Caleb, two spies sent out before Moses into the land of Canaan. They brought back a bunch of grapes on a pole, an incident that St. Augustine saw as prefiguring Christ's eucharistic iconography of the vine.
Flemish, date and initials obscured by age.
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width |
height |
depth |
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31 1⁄2"
80 cms |
33 7⁄8"
86 cms |
2"
5.1 cms |
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Link to: antique Firebacks