PAIRE DE VERROUS OU TARGETTES ENCLOISONNÉES en fer forgé, repoussé et cise

Pair of wrought iron, embossed and chased bolts with rectangular plate with molded frame decorated with symmetrical foliage scrolls with grotesque heads and embraced busts| bolt knobs showing a helmeted male bust.
Île-de-France, Château d'Écouen, circa 1540-1550
Height : 14,9 cm - Width : 6,8 cm
In an iron frame embossed with architectural form with pediment, buttresses and amortization with scrolls and tassels| shield of France with three fleur-de-lys topped by a royal crown in the upper part, figure with three intertwined crescents of Diane de Poitiers in the lower part, XIXth century
Height: 33.7 cm- Width: 34 cm
(small accidents to the frame, tassel to be refixed, slight dents
OTHER EXAMPLES KNOWN IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
- Three in the Henri-René d'Allemagne collection
- Two in the work of E. Franck, Petite ferronnerie ancienne, Paris, 1948, pl.XLVIII, n°225 and 227.
- One in the François Liger collection (inv. 6.501)
- Collection of the iron museum
Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen (inv. LS (2000)72)
- Louvre Museum from the former collection
Sauvageot deposited at the National Renaissance Museum in Ecouen (inv. OA 884)
- Collection Michel Rullier (Sale Paris, Me Fraysse, Hôtel Drouot, 19 May 2010, Expert : Houze, lots 11, 12 and 13)