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Door Knocker with Crab Claws
Door Knocker with Crab Claws
Date: ca. 1500
Dimensions:
H 27.7 x W 8.1 cm (H 10 11/16 x W 3 3/16 in.)
L of Hammer 27.7 cm (L of Hammer 10 11/16 in.)
Medium: Wrought Iron
Credit Line: Acquired by Archer M. Huntington for the Hispanic Society of America, 1906.
Place Made:Spain
Period: Renaissance
Culture: Spanish
Not on View
DescriptionDoor Knocker with Crab Claws
ca. 1500
Iron, plate 27.7 × 8.1 × 10 cm, hammer 27.7 cm
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, R56
PROVENANCE: Lionel Harris, The Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1906; acquired by Archer M. Huntington, New York, for The Hispanic Society of America, 1906
This remarkable piece of folk abstraction offers several elements in common with the Bird Knocker (See R55) including the punchwork dots along the edges of the long, thin vertical backplate and the dotted and semi-circular punchwork and fine chiseled striations on the flat sides of the s-shaped hammer. The punched dots continue onto the ends of the hammer, which imitate crab claws. The hinge apparatus, which must hold the hammer well out from the plate, is bent 90º to attach it to the plate in two long serpentine forms. MB
Texto en Español:
Esta notable muestra de abstracción popular presenta varios elementos en común con la aldaba con un ave (véase R55), entre otros los puntos a punzón que siguen los bordes de la larga y estrecha placa trasera y el punzonado de puntos y semicírculos y las finas estrías cinceladas sobre los cantos planos del martillo en forma de S. Los puntos continúan hasta los extremos del martillo, que imitan pinzas de cangrejo. El mecanismo de bisagra que debe sujetar el martillo bien separado de la placa se dobla en ángulo recto para unirse a esta en dos prolongaciones serpentinas. MB
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BYNE AND STAPLEY 1915 Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley, Spanish Ironwork. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915, p. 52
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, pp. 227-28
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, p. 156, no. 54
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, p. 144, no. 54
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. 54
ca. 1500
Iron, plate 27.7 × 8.1 × 10 cm, hammer 27.7 cm
New York, The Hispanic Society of America, R56
PROVENANCE: Lionel Harris, The Spanish Art Gallery, London, 1906; acquired by Archer M. Huntington, New York, for The Hispanic Society of America, 1906
This remarkable piece of folk abstraction offers several elements in common with the Bird Knocker (See R55) including the punchwork dots along the edges of the long, thin vertical backplate and the dotted and semi-circular punchwork and fine chiseled striations on the flat sides of the s-shaped hammer. The punched dots continue onto the ends of the hammer, which imitate crab claws. The hinge apparatus, which must hold the hammer well out from the plate, is bent 90º to attach it to the plate in two long serpentine forms. MB
Texto en Español:
Esta notable muestra de abstracción popular presenta varios elementos en común con la aldaba con un ave (véase R55), entre otros los puntos a punzón que siguen los bordes de la larga y estrecha placa trasera y el punzonado de puntos y semicírculos y las finas estrías cinceladas sobre los cantos planos del martillo en forma de S. Los puntos continúan hasta los extremos del martillo, que imitan pinzas de cangrejo. El mecanismo de bisagra que debe sujetar el martillo bien separado de la placa se dobla en ángulo recto para unirse a esta en dos prolongaciones serpentinas. MB
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
BYNE AND STAPLEY 1915 Arthur Byne and Mildred Stapley, Spanish Ironwork. New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1915, p. 52
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, pp. 227-28
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, p. 156, no. 54
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, p. 144, no. 54
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. 54
Accession Number: R56
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