Keyhole: escutcheon

Museum number:
7-629
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.90
Description:
Keyhole escutcheon, iron, elongated, with pointed ends; ornate embossed and incised openwork leaf and scroll design; winged key guide riveted to base plate
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Nuremberg; Germany
Culture or time period:
Bavarian
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Materials:
Iron (metal) and Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Escutcheons (hardware)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1903
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Keyhole: escutcheon, accession number 7-629, described as Keyhole escutcheon, iron, elongated, with pointed ends; ornate embossed and incised openwork leaf and scroll design; winged key guide riveted to base plateHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Keyhole: escutcheon, accession number 7-629, described as Keyhole escutcheon, iron, elongated, with pointed ends; ornate embossed and incised openwork leaf and scroll design; winged key guide riveted to base plate
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Keyhole: escutcheon, accession number 7-629, described as Keyhole escutcheon, iron, elongated, with pointed ends; ornate embossed and incised openwork leaf and scroll design; winged key guide riveted to base plate

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