. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. shows Figures, Animals, &c.(figs. 9 and 11). In all three classes the requisite noise is producedby the moveable part falling on a metal stud. In the third class theplate by which the knocker is affixed to the door is of subsidiaryimportance, while in the two former classes it is often the principalfeature of the design. The Gothic period devised richly - decoratedplates of pierced - work. This motive was often retained by the Re-nascence (fig. 4), or
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. shows Figures, Animals, &c.(figs. 9 and 11). In all three classes the requisite noise is producedby the moveable part falling on a metal stud. In the third class theplate by which the knocker is affixed to the door is of subsidiaryimportance, while in the two former classes it is often the principalfeature of the design. The Gothic period devised richly - decoratedplates of pierced - work. This motive was often retained by the Re-nascence (fig. 4), or replaced by double-headed eagles and the like(fig. 5). The Plate gives 11 different examples, selected from thecopious material. Plate 236. The Door-Knocker. 1. Romanesque, bronze. North portal of the cathedral of Puy-en-Velay,11th century. 2. Mediaeval, T/g iiis. square, Soyter collection, Augsburg. 3. Renascence, 2^/^ ins. square. Museum, Berlin. 4. Transition from Gothic to Renascence, 5^/2 ins. square, S, Peters,Strassburg. 5. Renascence, wrought-iron, German, National Museum, Munich. 6. Renascence, (Guichard). METAL OBJECTS. 409. The Door-Knocker. Plate 236. 410 The Door-Knocker. — The Key. 7. Mediaeval, bronze, 15th century, S/j ins. high, East portal ofthe cathedral of Noyon. 8. Renascence, wrought-iron, Dutch, 14^/8 ins. high, Vermerch col-lection. 9. Renascence, bronze, Italian, 13 72 ^^^- ^^o^j I^avid with thehead of Goliath, house in Ferrara, (Vorbilder fiir Fabrikantenund Handwerker). 10. Renascence, bronze, Italian, 1560, South Kensington Museum,London. 11. Renascence, bronze, Italian, Austrian Museum, Vienna, (Gewerbe-halle). The Key. (Plate 237.) It is not the task of this Handbook to follow the developementof the Lock through its various stages from the Antique up to thepresent day. It would also carry us too far if we were to attemptto go into the decorative details of the case of the lock; one plate,however shall be devoted to the Key; while the escutcheon w
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