(a) Door knocker, iron, round; four scroll like projections giving handle rectangular appearance; pivoting on machined eyebolt with spike at distal end; extended length 14 cm x width (handle) 8.4 cm; (b) Escutcheon plate for above, iron, flat, round with incised design and six points at perimeter; diameter 6.3 cm
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Nuremberg; Germany
Culture or time period:
Bavarian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Door knockers
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)