{"id":3767,"date":"2019-10-11T03:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T03:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2019-10-11T03:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T03:45:14","slug":"architectural-artifact-of-the-month-octoberber-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/architectural-artifact-of-the-month-octoberber-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Architectural Artifact of the month (October 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Artifact:<\/b><\/span><b> Keystone, lion with ring<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Material:<\/b><\/span><b> Grey Terra Cotta<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Identification marks: <\/b><\/span><strong> 162.\u00a0inscribed in clay on top<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Dim\u2019s h\/w\/d: <\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>22-1\/2\u201d x 14-3\/5\u201d x 10\u201d<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Weight: <span style=\"color: #000000;\">65#<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>Origin<\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>: NYC tenement<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A number of buildings in NYC feature this Roman inspired lion with ring keystone design, both with the integrated top cornice shown and without. The keystones date to circa 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Lions depicted with rings in their mouth were popular back in the ancient Roman era and have been used in many different applications besides architectural keystones, such as drawer and cabinet pulls, carvings on furniture and soforth.<\/p>\n<p>This particular keystone is identical to a couple I salvaged in NYC in the 1970s\/1980s, though it is in better condition. This one was painted over at some point with gold paint of all things, it took a lot of effort to remove the stupid paint to restore it back to the 100 plus year patina. The gold paint is shown in the second photo below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/architectural-artifact-of-the-month-september-2019-2\/img_4527\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_4527-639x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"713\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/architectural-artifact-of-the-month-september-2019-2\/43287-lion-terracotta-keystone-5-1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3770\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/43287-lion-terracotta-keystone-5-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/architectural-artifact-of-the-month-september-2019-2\/99th-st-2nd-ave-example\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3769\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/99th-st-2nd-ave-example.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artifact: Keystone, lion with ring Material: Grey Terra Cotta Identification marks: 162.\u00a0inscribed in clay on top Dim\u2019s h\/w\/d: 22-1\/2\u201d x 14-3\/5\u201d x 10\u201d Weight: 65# Origin: NYC tenement A number of buildings in NYC feature this Roman inspired lion with ring keystone design, both with the integrated top cornice shown and without. The keystones date to circa 1905. Lions depicted with rings in their mouth were popular back in the ancient Roman era and have been used in many different applications besides architectural keystones, such as drawer and cabinet pulls, carvings on furniture and soforth. This particular keystone is identical to a couple I salvaged in NYC in the 1970s\/1980s, though it is in better condition. This one was painted over at some point with gold paint of all things, it took a lot of effort to remove the stupid paint to restore it back to the 100 plus year patina. The gold paint is shown in the second photo below. &nbsp; \u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,14,15,48,57],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact-of-the-month","tag-architectural-artifacts","tag-architectural-lion-keystone","tag-architectural-terracotta","tag-lion-with-ring","tag-new-york-city-tenement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}