The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV

Decorative Arts

Charles Truman author Wolfram Koeppe author Clare Le Corbeiller author William Rieder author Suzanne G Valenstein author Clare Vincent author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Published:3rd Aug '12

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The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV cover

This volume catalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the twentieth century. Highlights include a a superb seventeenth-century oval-shaped watch decorated with enamels by the master Susanne de Court of Limoges; a dazzling domed cup supported by a carved alabaster figure of a bearded Turk, replete with jewels and precious stones, crafted in early eighteenth-century Germany; and a French secretaire from the 1780s set with painted enamels from the famed Sevres Manufactory. Provenance information, exhibition histories, and references are provided, and selected comparative illustrations are incorporated. The volume also includes a bibliography and an index.

"This is a handsome and authoritative volume."--Choice

ISBN: 9780691154909

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2438g

400 pages