1985.R.473, Frame, 19th century
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The influence of neoclassicism on European and American architecture and decorative arts was quite popular between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries.
1985.r.472.a-c, Clock, England, 19th century
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
During 19th-century Victorian era England, craftpersons made a wide range of furniture and objects that were decorated with dark lacquer, mother-of-pearl, and paint.
1985.R.64.b, Picture Frame, France, c. 1750
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This Rococo frame is among the finest in the United States. Although it employs the standard corner and center format, the quality of its carving is so high that it must have been commissioned by a major patron for a great work&nb
1996.15, Goblet with "Nasreen" pattern decoration, c. 1930
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The etched decoration of this goblet is characteristic of glass created by American stemware producers in the very late 1920s and early 1930s. The decorative motifs ranged from stylized foliage, to geometric art deco designs (as seen here) to tropical figural scenes.
1985.R.346, Frame, Spain, c. 1550
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The picture frame is now so ubiquitous that one forgets that, like all familiar forms, it was an invention. Although frames were originally conceived to protect the picture physically and enhance it aesthetically, their invention led gradually to the creation of a separate type of craft associated more often with furniture making than with the creation of pictures themselves.