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Three gothic locks, two of them with orbevoie. -...

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Three gothic locks, two of them with orbevoie. - Chest lock in iron worked in orbevoie of the 15th century. The rectangular palate presents two vertical compartments worked in orbevoie with piercing of pinnacles and gothic multilobed rosettes. Hasp, cover and the two studs are missing. France, end of the 15th century. - Lock of a chest with a hasp in pierced and chiselled iron of the 16th century. Square, it is framed by a chamfered moulding enhanced by small Gothic ornaments. Its entire surface is decorated with ogival motifs and pierced windows that also adorn the hasp. The door cover can be opened by simply lifting it. The whole decoration has been removed and reassembled on a crimson velvet background. A few accidents and missing pieces. - Lock with three receptions forming a bolt from the beginning of the 16th century. The rectangular case has three flat compartments, all framed by a twisted cord. Each of them is pierced with a different design of catch, one in the form of a hatchet, the other two in figures. The long bolt protrudes from the cast iron and slides inside a cage pierced with gothic ornamentation. The mechanism was enclosed and required the use of three different keys to move the bolt. A hasp with a T-shaped tongue supporting a vase with two handles surmounted by a series of openwork branches and leafy ornaments that originally covered the entire surface of the tongue and of which the upper part is now missing. Chiseled wrought iron, cut and pierced sheet metal. Missing decoration. France, 16th century.