(a) Door knocker, iron, heart-shaped with incised radiating lines at bottom, pivoting on spike with hole at end; extended length 12.6 cm x width (handle) 7.7 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, round, with four comma-like perforations; diameter 7.3 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)