Key, England, 1689-90
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1689-90
Key of guilt brass, pierced and engraved, the bow formed of an open-work cipher of William and Mary and a crown, made in England, 1689-90. Key of gilt brass, pierced and engraved, with the bow formed of an open-worked cipher of William and Mary and a crown.
20. KEY, gilt brass, engraved, England, 1689-90 With the cipher of William III and Mary II Museum No. 2314-1855 20. KEY, gilt brass, pierced and engraved, England; c. 1689-94 With the crowned monogram of King William III and Queen Mary (1689-94). Museum No. 2314-1855
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- Linked sources
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- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Length: 14 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Gilt brass, pierced and engraved
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- England
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O378035
- Museum object number
- 2314-1855
- Object history (museum record)
- Provenance Bought from the Bernal Collection for £4 4s in 1855. Ralph Bernal (1783-1854) was a renowned collector and objects from his collection are now in museums across the world, including the V&A. He was born into a Sephardic Jewish family of Spanish descent, but was baptised into the Christian religion at the age of 22. Bernal studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, and subsequently became a prominent Whig politician. He built a reputation for himself as a man of taste and culture through the collection he amassed and later in life he became the president of the British Archaeological Society. Yet the main source of income which enabled him to do this was the profits from enslaved la
- Source note
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Catalogue references
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