Henry R. dAllemagne - Decorative Antique Ironwork

I HENRI LE SECQ DES TOURNELLES
BORN IN PARIS ON APRIL 25, 1853
Chevalier of the Lgion dHonneur ( Legion of Honor )
FOUNDER OF THE MUSEUM

Faade of the Museum and of the Tower of Saint-Laurent (St. Lawrence). Sixteenth century.

General view of the nave, photographed from the gallery above.

The portal of the Saint-Laurent Tower, main entrance to the Museum. M. Le Secq des Tournelles standing among his colleagues. From left to right: M. Bidault, the Secretary General; M. Paulme, Curator; the chief guard; M. Le Secq des Tournelles; M. Henry dAllemagne entering the Museum.

Overall view of the altar grille from the Abbey of Ourscamp (Oise). Wrought iron. Beginning of the thirteenth century. (The grille is set in a modern wooden frame.)

Detail of one of the scrolls in the central part of the grille from the Abbey of Ourscamp (Oise). Wrought iron. Beginning of the thirteenth century.

Fragment of an imposing choir screen, made into a fire screen.

French work. Beginning of the thirteenth century.

Tabernacle doors decorated with applied ornaments of wrought and chased iron. The coats-of-arms are those of Lotin de Charny. Flemish work. Fifteenth century.

Grilles and fragments of grilles from screens, tabernacle doors, or doors of sacristy treasuries. Wrought iron. France, Italy, and Germany. Thirteenth to sixteenth centuries.

ABOVE: Grille from a religious community in vreux. Cut-out sheet iron. Fifteenth century. BELOW: Openwork iron guichet (wicket; grille for a door orifice) provided with its own shutter. Spain. Fifteenth century.

A, B: Furbishers (sword cutlers) signs. c: Bracket carrying a pulley. D: Balcony support (brace). Rouen. Fifteenth century. E: Lock hasp. Sixteenth century. F: Lock bolt. Louis XVI period. G: Chandelier suspension hook. Seventeenth century. H: Crmaillre (pot hanger) with three trammel hooks. Sixteenth century. I: Repouss iron sign, with the representation of Saint Sebastian. J: Grille. Lorraine work. Seventeenth century. K: A sacristy treasury door. Sixteenth century.

Window grille with wickerwork motif. Wrought iron. Italy. End of the sixteenth century.

Window grille ornamented with hearts and cable-twisted bars. Wrought iron. Fifteenth century. From a house of Jacques Coeur in Bourges.

Interior partition screen. It is composed of flowering vine scrolls issuing from a vase. Iron bands curled into scrolls held together by collars dropped over joints while hot. Venice. Sixteenth century.

ABOVE: Chapel grille. Wrought iron. Italian work. Eighteenth century. BELOW: Balcony railing formed by scrolls assembled by threading. Wrought iron. Germany. Eighteenth century. Both grilles changed into fire screens.