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Melinda Watt is associate curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and supervising curator, Antonio Ratti Textile Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wolfram Koeppe is curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mayer Thurman is curator emerita, The Art Institute of Chicago. Zhixin

Melinda Watt is associate curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and supervising curator, Antonio Ratti Textile Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Wolfram Koeppe is curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mayer Thurman is curator emerita, The Art Institute of Chicago. Zhixin Jason Sun is curator, Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Christa C.

. Charles Truman is an independent scholar, London. Valenstein is research scholar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Clare Vincent is associate curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Suzanne G. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles, The Art Institute of Chicago. William Rieder is former curator and administrator, European Sculptu

The volume also includes a bibliography and an index.. 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 Sèvres Manufactory. Provenance information, exhibition histories, and references are provided, and selected comparative illustrations are incorporated. 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

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

There is a series of jewelry produced in the 19th century by expert forgers Reinhold Vasters and Alfred Andre that foxed Robert Lehman.This catalog, like the previous volumes in this admirable series, is beautifully published and expertly described. The first volume (Italian Art / John Pope-Hennessy)was published as far back as 1987! I have most of the volumes and they have given much pleasure over the years. Part of me wanted to knock off a star for the price, but I decided that wouldn't really be fair!I would recommend this volume (and presumably others in the series) for serious collectors, especially those interested in the fakes and alterations that get into even the highest-end collections (indeed sometimes being made specifically to fit the taste of such collectors). This was achieved in the halcyon days of their finance and banking company; long before its recent collapse!The items presented in this volume consist of painted enamels, jewelry and precious objects, European snuffboxes and ceramics, European furniture, Chinese ceramics and small sections of Islamic pottery, Chinese and Thai small cast metal, carpets and Japanese, Chinese and Indian Textiles. I give it my highest recommendation.. The Lehman collection was started by Philip Lehman and substantially enlarged by his son Robert. Probably more specialized and detailed than more casual r

• Title : The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume XV: Decorative Arts
• Author : Wolfram Koeppe
• Rating : 4.73 (655 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-12-11
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 400 Pages
• Asin : 0691154902
• Language : English