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Ironwork, Room 114b

Key

1600-1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
France (made)

Key of pierced and chiselled steel


Object details

Categories
Household Objects
Metalwork
Tools & Equipment
Ironwork
Object type
Key
Materials and techniques
Pierced and chiselled steel
Steel
Chiselling
Piercing
Forging (Metal Forming)
Brief description
Key of pierced and chiselled steel, made in France, 16th century
Physical description
Key of pierced and chiselled steel
Gallery label
3. KEY, steel, pierced and chiselled, France; 16th century Salting Bequest Formerly Spitzer Collection Museum No. M.647-1910(07/1994)
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting
Object history
Formerly Spitzer Collection.
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.647-1910

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O378011/key-unknown/
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