Toilet bowl and cover

Artists

Description

Circular on domed spreading foot chased with bands of gadrooning, with two cast scroll handles; the low domed cover applied with a cast gadrooned rim enclosing a similar broader chased band; with acorn finial rising from a chased calyx of gadrooning; the side and the cover engraved, probably in the nineteenth century, with a crest of a gate.

Dimensions

10.8 x 17.5 x 13.3 cm (4 1/4 x 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 in.) 409 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.