Cassetta frame | Venetian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two young girls and a woman with a parasol, 1895–97 #robertlehman #mauricebrazilprendergast https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459554
Maurice Brazil Prendergast | Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: Two young girls and a woman with a parasol | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cassetta frame, late 18th century, style 16th century #robertlehman #metmuseum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461661
Cassetta frame | Italian, Veneto | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware, early 13th century #robertlehman #metmuseum https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460910
Lobed bowl, Minai'i ("enameled") ware | Iranian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

All the figures, including the horseman, wear colorful, intricately patterned robes and low caps. The drawing at center, in particular the horse, is of considerably higher quality than that of the surrounding figures

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Reverse cassetta frame | Southern French | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sano di Pietro, Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels, ca. 1465–70 #robertlehman #lehmancollection https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/458982
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) | Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Engraved book binding mount | Italian, Venice | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This lozenge-shaped bookbinding mount is engraved with a pattern of stylized leaves, a bronze six-sided “cabochon,” and a border of a jour fleurs-de-lis. It is the missing mount of a choir book from San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the so-called Antiphonary P, now at The Cloisters

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Dish (piatto) | Italian, probably Castel Durante | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alfred Israel Pringsheim, Munich, later Zurich (1850-1941); sale*, Sotheby's, London, June 8, 1939, lot 198; [Julius Goldschmidt, London, for Lehman]; acquired by Robert Lehman through Goldschmidt Galleries, New York, 1939

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Reinhold Vasters, Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation., second half 16th century (panels); ca. 1865–90 (frame) #metmuseum #robertlehman https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459249
Reinhold Vasters | Tabernacle House Altar with the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Annunciation. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This later nineteenth-century tabernacle frame of ebony-veneered soft wood was designed to house reverse-painted glass. The technique of reverse painting on glass, often called "verre eglomisé", dates to the Roman era, and was widely practiced in Europe by the early sixteenth century

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Indo-Persian carpet with medallions | Indo-Persian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This work is definitively the most important carpet among the Lehman Indo-Persian group. In spite of (or perhaps aided by) reknotting, it is extremely attractive, exhibits good color, and is in very presentable condition

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