PROBABLY AUSTRIAN, 15TH CENTURY | STAND WITH ZOOMORPHIC TERMINALS

By repute, from the Benedictine abbey of Lambach, Upper Austria;

Robert Rudolf Theodor Mayer (1874-1974), Vienna;

thence by descent to the present owner

For the animal heads, compare a pair of andirons with stylised chimaeras in the Musée le secq des Tournelles, Rouen, catalogued as Italian, 16th century (op. cit., vol. 2, pl. CCCXLIII). The zigzag-and-dots decoration, however, indicates a 15th-century dating (see ibid., vol. 1, pl. CXVI). 

RELATED LITERATURE

Musée Le Secq des Tournelles à Rouen, Ferronnerie Ancienne, Paris, 1924