
Cassetta frame
1900–1910 (style early 18th century)
Maker Unknown
Robert Lehman Collection
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Frame
- Formatted Medium
- Poplar back frame with applied ebonized pearwood upper moldings; glass. Half-lapped back frame. Sight edge: oil gilt. Friezes: verre églomisé, or reverse-painted glass, held in with bronze-colored ripple moldings and gilt-bronze panel ends, and painted to resemble stone mosaic.
- Medium
- Poplar back frame with applied ebonized pearwood upper moldings, glass. Half-lapped back frame. Sight edge: oil gilt. Friezes: verre églomisé, or reverse-painted glass, held in with bronze-colored ripple moldings, gilt-bronze panel ends, painted to resemble stone mosaic
- Locations
- country: Italy
- Dimensions
- Overall: 34 3/8 × 30 7/8 in. (87.3 × 78.4 cm) Sight: 16 1/4 × 12 15/16 in. (41.2 × 32.8 cm) Rabbet: 16 15/16 × 13 11/16 in. (43 × 34.7 cm)
- Departments
- Robert Lehman Collection
- Accession Number
- 1975.1.2297
- Credit Line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Rights Statement
- public-domain
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