(a) Door knocker, iron, oval, pivoting on spike with animal head at proximal end; extended length 8.2 cm x width (handle) 6.1 cm; (b) escutcheon plate for above, iron, square, with embossed and incised floral design; 3.8 cm; plate possibly mismatched with knocker; both date to late 15th to early 16th century
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)