| Artists, illustrators, architectural and art historians, restorers, dealers, collectors--anyone interested in historical ironwork--will welcome this magnificent treasury of decorative designs produced between the 12th and 17th centuries. Over 400 black-and-white illustrations on 86 plates, reprinted from a rare 19th-century French volume of copperplate engravings, reveal a remarkable variety of decorative and utilitarian objects. Focusing primarily on German Gothic ironwork designs that embellished palaces, cathedrals, castles, houses and other structures, the plates depict hinges ornamented with mythical sea creatures and dragons, door knockers decorated with female figures and human heads, keyhole plates wreathed in foliage, intricately laced metalwork on screens and grilles, elaborately designed keys, finials, candlestands and a host of other architechural and ornamental elements. Paperback, 96 pages.ISBN:486292606. DOVER |
