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Fireback Jesus at Jacob's well (Reference 9506)
Cast iron fireback dated 1677 depicting a story of the New Testament : Jesus at Jacob's well. as told in John IV,5 "So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”.... < /br> Above the fountain two suns representing France and Navarre flank a clock marking the 6th hour. The ornamentation of the fireback is typical Louis XIV style with the suns and the stylized dolphins above. Great attention was given to the sculpture, with details such as the folds of the robes, the water spouting out of the fountain the symbolic building behind, the clock. A similar fireback also dated 1677, formerly from the Nicora collection, is illustrated in the book on fireback by Henri Carpentier, Les Plaques de cheminées, T.I, Paris, 1967, page 76.
Condition
Good with the patina of age. New pictures soon.