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Sold item - Porte d'entr�e en fer forgé "Lloyd" (Артикул 1146)
Get the Flash Player to see this video Door with a wooden structure, a central glass pane and a large wrought iron decoration dominated by the figure of an anchor, the symbol of Lloyds the famous insurance company. In each corner, a medallion presents a woman's profile. In the tradition of geographical allegories, each part of the world is represented by a woman's face in profile: An Egyptian for the middle East, a Black African for Africa, an Indian for the Americas, and a Japanese for the far East.
Источник
19th century
Размеры
| Ширина | Высота | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164cm | 297cm |
Дополнительная информация
In about 1670, in London, business men would gather every day for a drink at the Lloyds coffee house and participate in insuring merchants ships and their merchandise in a similar fashion that one would play the market at the stock exchange. When a ship was deemed lost or sunk Lloyd would ring a bell and announce the bad