Toilet Case with Scenes from the ""Metamorphoses""

ca. 1750 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm) (l.) Citation Source image

The outside of this elegant gold toilet case is decorated with chiseled and engraved scenes from the Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses": the seated sculptor Pygmalion admires his creation, the ivory statue of a maiden with whom he falls in love (Book X); and, on the opposite si...

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1180
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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