Ring-style door knocker with backplate

 

Central Europe, ca. 1700

 

Malleable iron round bar with incised, bending terminals. Hammered, bulbous acanthus leaf backplate. Decorated with grooving.

H: 27 cm / W: 24 cm

UMP 3498

 

Purchased from Heinrich Kautsch in České Budějovice in 1889.