Cassetta frame
Object type: Frame
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Culture: Italian, Rome
Date: 1900–1910 (style early 18th century)
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)
Classification: Frames
Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession year: 1975