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LOT 1768
Stuart Period Iron Door-Hinge Pair with Dragons
EARLY 17TH CENTURY A.D.
15 in. (1.45 kg total, 38 cm each).
Matched pair of openwork iron hinges and plates, each with scrolled hinge barrel, plaque of openwork scrolls with opposed bird-head detailing, coiled tendrils, punched fan-motifs and other decoration. [2,No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired Bishop & Miller, UK, 16 April 2016, lot 252.
Property of a Kent collector.
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