A GROUP OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU DOOR FIXTURES

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, MOST STAMPED ST

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A GROUP OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU DOOR FIXTURES
Early 20th Century, most stamped ST
Comprising thirteen oval door handles cast to the center with berried laurel leaf vines within a beaded surround, each mounted to further rectangular scrolling laurel leaf vine-cast lock casement with a punched background, one side of the casement bowed, within a ribbon and leaf-wrapped surround; five conforming rectangular large lock recepticle casements, two mounted with further locks; six smaller rectangular lock recepticle casements similarly cast; seventeen large lozenge-shaped door plates with conforming cast decoration, one with a handle soldered in place, most drilled with holes and keyholes, three with no holes; seven smaller lozenge-shaped conforming door plates, four with keyholes to the inset oval reserves; six thin door plates, each with keyholes; thirty-seven sets of hinge mounts, the top hinge mount fluted and with a pomegranate finial, the lower hinge mount stop-fluted and with a vestigial pomegranate finial; seven loose door handles of various types; three keys; most components with impressed numbers and letters (138)

Lot Essay

In the 18th century, the mark 'ST' was used by the lock manufacturer Bricard who had acquired the stock of the lock retailer Sterlin in the 1760s. A Louis XV and two Louis XVI ormolu locks stamped ST formerly in the Frederick P. Victoria and Alexander Collections were sold at Christie's New York, 27 May, 1999, lot 9 and 30 April, 1999, lots 66-67. The same initials, but differently stamped, was also employed in the late 19th/early 20th Century, as can be seen on groups of Régence style ormolu window fittings and French ormolu door fittings sold Christie's New York, 24 May 2000, lots 301-11.

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