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Johann Ludwig Biller|Elkington & Co.|Johann Jakob Wald

19th century, after 1730–40 original · Gold · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This electrotype is after an eighteenth-century original (1730–40) at the Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, at the time of reproduction. It belongs to a toilet service made for and presented to the Empress Anna Ivanovna.

Artist

Johann Ludwig Biller|Elkington & Co.|Johann Jakob Wald

Date

19th century, after 1730–40 original

Medium

Gold

Culture

British, Birmingham, after German, Augsburg original

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883