Toilet set in original leather case

Fourteen identified German (Augsburg) goldsmiths and other German artisans; Japanese (Imari) porcelain maker

Date

ca. 1743–45

Type

Toilet set in case

Medium

Gilt silver, hard-paste porcelain, cut glass, walnut, carved and partially gilt coniferous wood, blind-tooled and partially gilt leather, partially gilt steel and iron, textiles, moiré paper, hog's bristle

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

2005.364.1a–f–.48

Credit

Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005