(a) Door knocker, iron, oval, two-piece; oval opening with mustached human face at bottom and four stylized fish projecting from perimeter at “corners”, pivoting on spike; extended length 23 cm x width (oval) 13.4 cm; (b) escutcheon plate, iron, roughly diamond-shaped with pointed ends; incised and embossed openwork scroll and floral; length 17 cm x width 10 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)