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AN IRON BOLT
FRENCH, 16TH CENTURY

The rectangular plate decorated with manerist school of Fontainbleau grotesques, with ball bolt handle; together with an iron bolt, with rectangular plate decorated with arabesques, the handle formed as the bust of a man ---- each 5 7/8in. (15cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Sotheby's Zurich, June 10, 1983, lot 202, as from a chateau in the Loire or the Ecouen Valley

Sotheby's Zurich, 10 June, 1983, lot 203
Literature
H.R. d'Allemagne, Decorative Antique Ironwork, Dover Publications, reprint, 1968, plate 159, for a similarly decorated bolt with a variant handle

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