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Door Enframement

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1725-1750

GUSN

GUSN-290

Description

Frontpiece with elyptical fanlight with leaded tracery and sidelights from dado height; painted. There are panelled pilaster strips on either side of the sidelights; those next to the door terminate at the top in a stylized bracket trimmed with a distinctive pattern of overlapping circles and three guttae. On the interior side, the door is six panels with applied moldings. On the exterior, the door is made to look like one large panel and decorated with applied fret work and four floral blocks.

Details

Descriptive Terms

doorframes
metal
molding (forming)
paneling
floral patterns
fretwork
Unidentified Metal
Panelled
Molded
Torah
Circle
Fretwork
Floral
ENFRAMEMENT, DOOR

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

130 x 80 (HxW) (inches)

Accession Number

1927.861

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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