Flask or flacon

Elkington & Co.

19th century, after 1619–20 original · Electroformed copper, gilt · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Flask or flacon — Elkington & Co.

This electrotype is after a seventeenth-century original (1619/20) in the Treasury of the Kremlin, Moscow. It was given by the ambassador Sir John Merrick to Tsar Mikhail Romanov from King James I in 1620.

Artist
Elkington & Co.
Date
19th century, after 1619–20 original
Medium
Electroformed copper, gilt
Culture
British, Birmingham, after British, London original
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Credit line
Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883

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