Cassetta frame

Unknown maker

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.
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)
Culture: Italian, Rome
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Classification: Frames
Dated: 1900–1910 (style early 18th century)
Pixels: 2916 × 3248
SHA-256: 90e430a549b99fdb…
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License, verbatimCC0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.

Cassetta frame. 1900–1910 (style early 18th century). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.