Four knockers. - A wrought iron and chiselled... Lot 22 B

Four knockers. - A wrought iron and chiselled pendeloque knocker from the 17th century in Germany. It has a square-section rod ending in a hammer, with sides stamped with interlacing. It supports on its front face a set of four volutes facing each other. The lace is reduced to a simple flat rod closed around the axis of the knocker. - Beautiful looped knocker of the 17th century in richly chased iron. The ring, circular, is decorated top and bottom with four pairs of leafy volutes. A large chiselled leaf is used as a leaf. The lace (very simple) was replaced later. The whole surface of the ring and the finials is richly decorated with acanthus foliage finely chiselled in high relief on a sandblasted background. XVIIth century. Incomplete of one of the four outer scrolls and its original lace. An openwork and engraved iron plate is attached. - Pendeloque knocker. Germany, end of the 17th century. It represents a stylized dragon in profile, the body in a moving scroll ending with a bifid tail. The sides are chiseled with foliage and flowers on a sandy background. The back of the monster is enriched with long leaves of iron sheet embossed and scrolled, posed in projection. The knocker rests on a plate cut out and embossed of later period. - Important ornament of iron applique embossed and stamped. It is a long flat rod ending at one end with a series of openwork interlacing foliage, iron embossed and at the other by a flat ring, mobile, engraved with foliage closing with two heads of squals facing each other, gules open on a small dolphin engraved attached. Work of the German country of the early eighteenth century