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
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