Wrought Iron Lock Bolt

"…I was always attracted to the simple…made beautiful…or the beauty and elegance in simplicity. Just look at the Spanish wrought-iron door bolt shaped into a spitting dragon—perhaps symbolically to keep out the unwanted. No excess of materials here." Lloyd Cotsen, "Looking Behind My Eye," in The Extraordinary in the Ordinary, p. 20.

A.1995.93.1850
Wrought Iron Lock Bolt
Spain
Iron
Nineteenth century
25 1/2 x 12 1/2 x 1" (64 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 2 1/2 cm.)


Wrought Iron Lock Bolt