Details
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)
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
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