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Key

1760 - 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Tula Workshops (made)
Place of origin
Tula (made)

Key of pierced and chiselled steel.

Object details

Categories
Metalwork
Ironwork
Object type
Key
Materials and techniques
Pierced and chiselled steel
Steel
Piercing
Chiselling
Forging (Metal Forming)
Brief description
Key, steel, pierced and chiselled, Tula, Russia, 1760-1770
Physical description
Key of pierced and chiselled steel.
Gallery label
(07/1994)
10. KEY, steel, pierced and chiselled, Russia; 1760s
Made in the Tula Arms Factories, near Moscow. For more information on Tula wares, see the text panel further down the Gallery.
Salting Bequest. Formerly Spitzer Collection
Museum No. M.653-1910
Credit line
Bequeathed by George Salting
Object history
Formerly Spitzer Collection
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.653-1910

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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