Italian, Venice, late 16th/ early 17th century

Door Knocker

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January 28, 07:17 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collector, Maryland

Italian, Venice, late 16th/17th century

Door Knocker

bronze

the cartouche inscribed with the arms of de la Tour family, alternatively known as Thurm of Southern Austria

height 10¾ in.; 27.3cm.

Sotheby's London, 9 July 2008, lot 116

Roy Ysla, Striking Figures, Figurative Door Knockers from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, 2019, p. 93, no. 167.

Stylistically influenced by the work of Niccolo Roccatagliata, compare the present piece with the door knocker formerly in the Figdor Collection illustrated by Planiscig (op. cit.). Note also the flanking lions holding a shell beneath, attributed to a Venetian workshop of circa 1600 and illustrated by Krahn.

RELATED LITERATURE:

L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, Vienna, 1921, p. 611, pl. 679 (for a related doorknocker also in the style of Niccolo Roccatagliata);

V. Krahn, Bronzetti Veneziani, Berlin, 2003, p. 254, pl. 79 (for a door knocker with similar lions centered by a shell).