Small door knocker or handle ornamented with rams' heads strapped together `dos-à-dos'

Details

  • Title

    Small door knocker or handle ornamented with rams' heads strapped together `dos-à-dos'

  • Associated place

    Florence (probable) (probable place of creation)
  • Date

    2nd half of the 16th century
  • Material and technique

    bronze

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    12.6 cm (height)
    12.05 cm (length)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1889.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Western Art

  • Accession no.

    WA1889.CDEF.B1059

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Further reading

Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

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