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Toilet bowl and cover
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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.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Archibald Alexander Hutchinson New York bequest; to the Fogg Art Museum 1949.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson Esq.
Title: Toilet bowl and cover
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.
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