Three German handles from the 15th and 16th centuries. -... Lot 49 B

Three German handles from the 15th and 16th centuries. - Beautiful German handle from the 15th century worked in orbevoie. It presents a parallelepipedic frieze whose top is richly chiselled in orbevoie with a frieze of lanceolate motifs, framed by a twist. - Two German door handles from the end of the 15th century. The first one is semi-cylindrical, the flat upper part covered with an iron sheet finely pierced and engraved with a frieze of leafy interlacing with ogival decoration. It is framed by two twists that are now damaged. This handle is held by two simple rods at its ends which rest on four-lobed plates. The latter are pierced with palmettes for one and fleurons for the other and enriched with small hearts. The central part is swollen into a dome. Iron and sheet metal cut, pierced, embossed and engraved. German work from the beginning of the 16th century. Accidents and small missing parts. The period plates are not original. The second one of a similar shape has a cylindrical handle covered with an openwork of multiple leafy garlands, slightly embossed and engraved with ribs. It also rests on two four-lobed plates pierced and engraved with motifs very similar to the first one. German work of the 16th century Some damages. Here also the square plates, pierced with four leafy branches. Accidents and missing parts. - Three iron knockers or handles of the XVIIth century. Two are circular, they are embossed in high relief of foliage branches arranged in waves. One is also openwork. Iron cut out, openwork and embossed. Traces of tinning. Germany 17th century or beginning of the 18th century. The third one, square, with a very cut outline, is entirely openwork, embossed and engraved with a network of interlaced foliage. Germany 17th century.