![]() Two decorative roundels support the piece as fixing, with the smaller attached by a chain-linked collar. The front and wings are sheet-cut and attached midway by two pins held at the rear. It was made from a single sculpted wrought iron bar and has a twisted wrought iron ring at its base. This beautiful creature is depicted with chest expanded, wings wide and neck curled down, mouth open and tongue out, challenging the onlooker. This fierce dragon, just 19”/48cm in height, identified as late Renaissance, a vibrant and important time in art history (c. ![]() “Pole-Ring (Cerchio Bracciale) from the front of a house in Siena, wrought iron in the form of a dragon with extended wings. The museum register entry for the object reads: ![]() A fierce wrought iron dragon from the Renaissance city of Siena, Italy, thought to be a pole or tethering ring.
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