Antique Renaissance style gilt bronze lock plates, c. 19th c. or earlier, possibly Italian, gilt cast bronze and iron, for mounting onto a pair of double doors, each plate elaborately relief decorated with serpents, griffons and bacchus mask, key and handle holes on one plate, bolt receptacles on other, initialed "ST" on the face, 7.5"h x 3.75"w x 3"d

Provenance: From the Collection of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw

Notes/Literature: Art dealer, connoisseur, and philanthropist Eugene Victor Thaw (1927-2018) was widely considered to be among the world's greatest collectors of European master drawings, French Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and an early advocate of the American Abstract Expressionists. One of the most respected art dealers of his day, he is credited with placing hundreds of major works into museums around the world, and was the founding member and past president of the Art Dealers Association of America.

Good, gilding remarkably intact on face but with some darkening and losses, gilding mostly worn on sides, old tape on back, appears to have lock bolt mechanism intact but not tested