Plateau

Elkington & Co.

19th century, after ca. 1635–40 original · Electroformed copper, gilt · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This electrotype is after a seventeenth-century original (Augsburg, ca. 1635–40) in the treasure of the Kremlin, Moscow. It was a gift to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich by the ambassadors of the king of Poland, Wladislaw IV in 1647, together with a matching ewer.

Artist

Elkington & Co.

Date

19th century, after ca. 1635–40 original

Medium

Electroformed copper, gilt

Culture

British, Birmingham, after German, Augsburg original

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883