(a) Door knocker, iron, two-piece; oval opening with incised ornate design on perimeter; pivoting on spike with dentate edge on proximal end; extended length ca. 12 cm x width (knocker) 6.5 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron; incised and embossed openwork four-leaf design arranged in cross; diameter 7.7 cm
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)
Loans:
S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960)