Key plate

 

Royal Imperial Technical School for Ornamental Ironwork in Hradec Králové, Bohemia, 1887

 

Malleable iron copy of a seventeenth-century work. Plate wrought into the form of a dolphin with foliate tendrils. Cut opening for the keyhole. Decorated with grooving.

H: 16 cm, W: 4 cm

UMP 3491

 

Gift of the Royal Imperial Technical School for Ornamental Ironwork in Hradec Králové in 1887.