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Door Knocker with a Bird
Door Knocker with a Bird
Date: ca. 1500
Dimensions:
H 34.5 x W 14.2 cm (H 13 9/16 x W 5 9/16 in.)
L of Hammer 24.9 cm (L of Hammer 9 13/16 in.)
Medium: Wrought Iron
Credit Line: Acquired by Archer M. Huntington for the Hispanic Society, 1906.
Place Made:Spain
Period: Medieval
Culture: Spanish
Not on View
DescriptionDoor Knocker with a Bird
ca. 1500
Iron, plate 34.5 × 14.2 cm, hammer 24.9 cm
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, R55
PROVENANCE: Lionel Harris, The Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1906; acquired by Archer M. Huntington, New York, for The Hispanic Society of America, 1906
Bird motifs of this type are relatively common in Spanish ironwork, especially in collections associated with Eastern Spain. Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano and Luis Pérez Bueno both point out the popular arts aspect of the bird figure, as they assign dates in both the 15th and 16th centuries. In the present example, the animating punch work, including the almost fingernail-like semi-circular forms creating the bird’s plumage and the semi-circle and dot forms running along the edge of the back plate, suggest a blacksmith with a keen eye for detail. MB
Texto en Español:
Es relativamente frecuente encontrar motivos de aves como esta en el hierro forjado español, sobre todo en colecciones relacionadas con el Levante peninsular. Tanto Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano como Luis Pérez Bueno han señalado el carácter popular de la figura, que fechan en los siglos XV y XVI. En este ejemplo la labor ornamental de punzón, a base de formas semicirculares, casi a manera de uñas, para indicar el plumaje y semicírculos o arcos y puntos que recorren los bordes de la placa trasera, lleva a pensar en un herrero con fina vista para los detalles. MB
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BYNE AND STAPLEY 1915 Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley, Spanish Ironwork.
New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915, p. 52, fig. 56
DURAND 1938 Anne Sawyer Durand, “Ironwork,” in The Hispanic Society of America Handbook: Museum and Library Collections. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1938, p. 220 (comparative objects: ARTÍÑANO Y GALDÁCANO 1919 Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano, Exposición de hierros antiguos españoles. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Amigos de Arte, 1919, pp. 136-37, nos. 423-25;
PÉREZ BUENO 1925 Luis Pérez Bueno, Ferros artístics espanyols dels segles xii al xviii, Biblioteca d’art “Vell i nou,” vol. 4. Barcelona: M. Bayes, 1925, p. xl, fig. 58)
CODDING ( ED. ) 2017 Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Tesoros de la Hispanic Society: Visiones del mundo hispánico. Madrid, New York: Museo Nacional del Prado, The Hispanic Society of America, 2017, pp. 150-51, no. 48
CODDING ( ED. ) 2018a [Spanish edition] Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Tesoros de la Hispanic Society of America. Mexico City, New York: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, The Hispanic Society of America, 2018., pp. 138-39, no. 48
CODDING ( ED. ) 2018b [English edition] Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Visions of the Hispanic World: Treasures from The Hispanic Society Museum & Library. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 2018, no. 48
ca. 1500
Iron, plate 34.5 × 14.2 cm, hammer 24.9 cm
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, R55
PROVENANCE: Lionel Harris, The Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1906; acquired by Archer M. Huntington, New York, for The Hispanic Society of America, 1906
Bird motifs of this type are relatively common in Spanish ironwork, especially in collections associated with Eastern Spain. Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano and Luis Pérez Bueno both point out the popular arts aspect of the bird figure, as they assign dates in both the 15th and 16th centuries. In the present example, the animating punch work, including the almost fingernail-like semi-circular forms creating the bird’s plumage and the semi-circle and dot forms running along the edge of the back plate, suggest a blacksmith with a keen eye for detail. MB
Texto en Español:
Es relativamente frecuente encontrar motivos de aves como esta en el hierro forjado español, sobre todo en colecciones relacionadas con el Levante peninsular. Tanto Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano como Luis Pérez Bueno han señalado el carácter popular de la figura, que fechan en los siglos XV y XVI. En este ejemplo la labor ornamental de punzón, a base de formas semicirculares, casi a manera de uñas, para indicar el plumaje y semicírculos o arcos y puntos que recorren los bordes de la placa trasera, lleva a pensar en un herrero con fina vista para los detalles. MB
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BYNE AND STAPLEY 1915 Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley, Spanish Ironwork.
New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915, p. 52, fig. 56
DURAND 1938 Anne Sawyer Durand, “Ironwork,” in The Hispanic Society of America Handbook: Museum and Library Collections. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1938, p. 220 (comparative objects: ARTÍÑANO Y GALDÁCANO 1919 Pedro Miguel Artíñano y Galdácano, Exposición de hierros antiguos españoles. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Amigos de Arte, 1919, pp. 136-37, nos. 423-25;
PÉREZ BUENO 1925 Luis Pérez Bueno, Ferros artístics espanyols dels segles xii al xviii, Biblioteca d’art “Vell i nou,” vol. 4. Barcelona: M. Bayes, 1925, p. xl, fig. 58)
CODDING ( ED. ) 2017 Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Tesoros de la Hispanic Society: Visiones del mundo hispánico. Madrid, New York: Museo Nacional del Prado, The Hispanic Society of America, 2017, pp. 150-51, no. 48
CODDING ( ED. ) 2018a [Spanish edition] Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Tesoros de la Hispanic Society of America. Mexico City, New York: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, The Hispanic Society of America, 2018., pp. 138-39, no. 48
CODDING ( ED. ) 2018b [English edition] Mitchell A. Codding (ed.), Visions of the Hispanic World: Treasures from The Hispanic Society Museum & Library. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 2018, no. 48
Accession Number: R55
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