A WROUGHT-IRON TRIPTYCH ENTRANCE DOOR

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A WROUGHT-IRON TRIPTYCH ENTRANCE DOOR
BY THOMAS MOLESWORTH, CIRCA 1935-1937

With a rectangular hand wrought frame, backed by screen, depicting a mountainous landscape with an Indian settlement, stylized deer and cloud forms in the foreground and a clover form doorknob; along with two conforming window panels; an evergreen form doorbell; and with glazed entrance door in wood frame and two glazed side window panels -- 82½in. (209.5cm.) high, 41½in. (105.5cm.) wide; 51½in. (130.8cm.) high, 17in. (43.2cm.) wide, together with a horse-shoe form hung with bells

Lot Essay

cf. Karen Davies, At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Connecticut, 1983, pp. 37-38, 50, 87 for illustrations of other American Moderne metal work