Toilet box with cover

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

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|Johann Jakob Wald|Elkington & Co.

Date

19th century, after 1730–40 original

Medium

Gold

Culture

British, Birmingham, after German original

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883