The Robert Lehman Collection XI. Glass / Dwight P. Lanmon with David B. Whitehouse
1993, First Edition. New York, N.Y : Princeton, N.J. : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 342 pages; Series: The Robert Lehman collection, 11. Physical description: xv, 342p. : illus. (some col.) ; 29cm. Summary: Among the exquisite pieces of glass in Robert Lehman's collection are many that exhibit the consummate skill of Venetian glassmakers and explain why Venetian glass was so coveted in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The factories in northern Europe that produced glass a la faon de Venise are represented as well. Robert Lehman also acquired perhaps the richest American collection of eighteenth-century lampworked glass figurines, which are usually attributed to Nevers, France. Smaller groups of reverse-painted panels and ancient Roman and early Islamic glass round out the 136 objects catalogued in this volume. Subjects: Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969 -- Art collections -- Catalogs. Item #220532
ISBN: 0870996789
Price: €85.00