"Carved Wooden Barrel Lock"
ornamental barrel lock from an Alsatian cellar, sculpted with a mermaid and a sailor's head wearing a beret and a center of a shell which encircles the bronze lock
Probably oak wood
documentation: the art of the Alsatian vineyard by G. Klein, published by Jacques Fréal, Garnier editions, 1979, pages: 169 and 178-179
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