Object Image

Inkstand

Unknown Artist

This electrotype is after a sixteenth- or eighteenth-century original in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, at the time of reproduction.

Credit: Purchase, 1873

19th century, after 16th or 18th century original

Silver gilt

4.4 x 8.3 cm

73.8.38

Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Permanent collection