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Wash basin from the Toilet set of Duke Ernst Johann Biron

Edward Vincent, Paul de Lamerie, et al.

London

1718-1737

Silver; chased, engraved, poincon

Height 23.5 cm

Provenance: prior to 1741, in the possession of the owner; after 1741, the property of the imperial household; from 1759 belonged to Duke Biron’s heirs, first his daughter and then his granddaughter, Countess Sollogub, who took it as dowry into the Wulffius family; in 1904 it passed to Duke M.G. Mecklenburg-Strelitsky. Entered the Hermitage in 1922 from the collection of Duchess Elena Georgievna of Saxon-Altenburg.

 

 

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