(a) Door knocker, iron; oval opening; openwork scrolls (one broken off) extending from bottom; serpent head and body at bottom; pivoting on cotter pin type spike (b) escutcheon plate, iron; square, with openwork embossed and incised tree branch design; three corners broken off
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Nuremberg; Germany
Culture or time period:
Bavarian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Door knockers
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)