Pair of wrought iron, embossed and chased bolts with rectangular plate with molded frame decorated with symmetrical foliage scrolls with grotesque heads and embraced busts; bolt knobs showing a helmeted male bust.
Île-de-France, Château d'Écouen, circa 1540-1550
Height : 14,9 cm - Width : 6,8 cm
In an iron frame embossed with architectural form with pediment, buttresses and amortization with scrolls and tassels; shield of France with three fleur-de-lys topped by a royal crown in the upper part, figure with three intertwined crescents of Diane de Poitiers in the lower part, XIXth century
Height: 33.7 cm- Width: 34 cm
(small accidents to the frame, tassel to be refixed, slight dents
OTHER EXAMPLES KNOWN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- Three in the Henri-René d'Allemagne collection
- Two in the work of E. Franck, Petite ferronnerie ancienne, Paris, 1948, pl.XLVIII, n°225 and 227.
- One in the François Liger collection (inv. 6.501)
- Collection of the iron museum
Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen (inv. LS (2000)72)
- Louvre Museum from the former collection
Sauvageot deposited at the National Renaissance Museum in Ecouen (inv. OA 884)
- Collection Michel Rullier (Sale Paris, Me Fraysse, Hôtel Drouot, 19 May 2010, Expert : Houze, lots 11, 12 and 13)
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