Metal Hardware · Victorian (Queen Anne, Eastlake)
Ornamented Interior Doorknob, Molly Brown House, Denver
A decorated interior doorknob and rosette in the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, typical of the cast, patterned hardware used in high-style houses of the 1880s.
Design characteristics
Late-Victorian houses used decorative cast hardware throughout, with matching knobs, rosettes and escutcheons on each door. Details like this set the scale for everything around them: a richly patterned knob looks right against a substantial casing and a paneled door. Hardware is included in the library because it is the first thing to plan when a period door or cabinet is designed. New doors and cabinet fronts can be machined to accept salvaged or reproduction hardware.
Classification
- Category
- Metal Hardware
- Material
- Bronze
- Motifs
- Eastlake
- Photograph
- 2019
- Photographer
- Jonathan Mauer
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Carved mantels, layered trim and dark, decorative hardwoods. Britain and the United States · c. 1837–1901.
