The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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“Cup in form of an Eagle,” Elkington & Co. (in business ca. 1836-1963); English (Birmingham), 1883. Copy of a silver-gilt original made by Christoph Jamnitzer in Germany (Nuremberg), ca. 1595, now in the Armoury Chamber, Kremlin Museums, Moscow. The Metro
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Nov 22, 2011 – Apr 22
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free w/ admission
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For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes, the metalwork reproductions that were among the first European decorative arts purchased by the Museum in the 1870s and 1880s. These highly sculptural pieces were intended to represent to the American public the most ambitious examples of Mannerist and Baroque goldsmiths’ work. They were made by electroforming, a technology that produced an extremely precise copy of an original by running an electrical charge through a solution to deposit metal into a mold. The largest group of electrotypes in the exhibition is comprised of the “Russian Treasures,” the rich holdings of silver and gold housed in the Kremlin, the Hermitage, and Russian monasteries. Also on view are Tiffany and Company’s magnificent Bryant Vase and an electroformed copy of it.
