The Electrotyping Process


Ellenor Alcorn, associate curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explains the nineteenth-century process of electrotyping and how it was used to create presentation copies of Tiffany and Company’s famous silver Bryant Vase.

Video from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cite this page as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Electrotyping Process," in Smarthistory, May 9, 2017, accessed March 19, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/the-electrotyping-process/.