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

By (author) Wolfram Koeppe, By (author) Clare Le Corbeiller, By (author) William Rieder, By (author) Charles Truman, By (author) Suzanne G. Valenstein, By (author) Clare Vincent

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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.

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Publisher | Princeton University Press
Published date | 22 Jul 2012
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 400
Dimensions | 279 x 216 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 2438g
ISBN | 978-0-6911-5490-9
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BISAC | art / history / general


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