Lot Essay
The present bronze is after a known model, catalogued in the Untermyer Collection as Venetian, circa 1550 (Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture, loc.cit.).
Details
AN ITALIAN BRONZE DOOR KNOCKER, in Renaissance style, centred at the top by a bearded grotesque mask, flanked by two dolphins biting the ears of a second central grotesque mask below, on a modern perspex stand, 19th Century
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Y. Hackenbroch, Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1962, fig. 64
Y. Hackenbroch, Bronzes, Other Metalwork and Sculpture in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1962, fig. 64