Plate

Kaslinski Ironworks

probably mid-19th century · Iron, cast and patinated · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Plates of this design were made in ironworks from Coalbrookdale, England, to Kyshtym in the Ural Mountains of Russia, as well as in a number of foundries in Central Europe. The relative inexpensiveness of the medium was suited to the means of a growing middle class; its manufacture supplied middle-class patrons with decorative objects. The lacelike design, probably of Prussian origin, is in the Gothic Revival style, which was popular throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, extending into a Russia that was increasingly open to Western influence.

Artist

Kaslinski Ironworks

Date

probably mid-19th century

Medium

Iron, cast and patinated

Culture

Russian, Kyschtymsk (Kyshtym)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of David and Constance Yates, 2000