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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ironwork, Room 114b

Lock Front

16th century (made)
Place of origin

Steel lock front, with a crown and two adorsed dolphins.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Pierced, chiselled and blued steel
Brief description
Lock front, with a crown and two adorsed dolphins, steel, France, 16th century.
Physical description
Steel lock front, with a crown and two adorsed dolphins.
Gallery label
LOCK FRONT, steel, pierced, chiselled and blued, France; 16th century The crown and two adorsed dolphins suggest that the lock may have come from a house of a French crown prince, the dolphin being a pun on his title as Dauphin. Soulages Collection Museum No. 5708-1859(07/1994)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Robinson, J. C. Catalogue of the Soulages Collection; being a descriptive inventory of a collection of works of decorative art, formerly in the possession M. Jules Soulages of Toulouse. London : Malborough House, 1856.
  • Lecoq. Lille Musée. p.220.
Collection
Accession number
5708-1859

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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