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Spanish ironmasters replaced the square-sectioned or twisted iron bar with the slender, rounded iron spindle in the early sixteenth century. Spindles were soon being used for everything from choir screens and window grilles to elegant lecterns for supporting books.
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Title: Lectern
Date: early 16th century
Culture: Spanish
Medium: Wrought iron
Dimensions:
Overall (open): 11 × 13 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (27.9 × 33.3 × 29.2 cm);
Height (closed): 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Iron
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957
Object Number: 57.137.47
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