Handle and escutcheon with latch
18th century
Medium
Iron, brass and copper
Dimensions
Handle and escutcheon: 13 3/4 x 3 x 4 7/8 in. (34.9 x 7.6 x 12.4 cm); Latch: 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (16.5 x 3.8 cm)
Classification
Metalwork-Iron
Culture
Spanish
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2010
Accession Number
2010.181a, b
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...