This volume opens with a thorough publication of a recently acquired, exceptionally important bronze statuette of Thutmose III. Three articles are devoted to late Roman glass and personal ornament, while others present significant groups of pieces ranging from the remains of a Byzantine gold hoard from Kiev to Flemish harpsichords and virginals and Russian table snuffboxes. Two essays identify the subjects of a portrait by Martin van Meytens the Younger and of a portrait bust by Ippolito Buzio. New research is presented on the Museum's popular seventeenth-century reception room from Damascus, as well as a terracotta model for a royal high altar at Versailles. Scientific scrutiny of the methods and materials used to make the famous Fonthill Ewer reveals not only the likey origins of the piece, once attributed to Cellini, but also colorful aspects of nineteenth-century fakery. Two notes elucidate the iconography of a French royal partizan and a Russian commemorative medal.

217 pages, 305 black-and-white illustrations, 9 in. x 11 3/8 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 32, 1997
Table of Contents

A Bronze Statuette of Thutmose III, by Marsha Hill and Deborah Schorsch

Roman Figure-Engraved Glass in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Beaudoin Caron

Provincial Roman Objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Jean-Pierre Caillet

Ten Rings from the Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, by Hélène Guiraud

Treasures from Ancient Kiev in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dumbarton Oaks, by L. V. Pekars'ka

A Portrait Bust of Luisa Deti by Ippolito Buzio, by Hans-Ulrich Kessler

Flemish Harpsichords and Virginals in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Analysis of Early Alterations and Restorations, by Stewart Pollens

"A Room of Splendor and Generosity" from Ottoman Damascus, by Annie-Christine Daskalakis Mathews

A State Partizan by Jean Bérain for a Royal Wedding, by A. V. B. Norman

A Terracotta Model for the Royal High Altar at Versailles, by Bruno Pons

I cacciatori amanti: The Portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo and His Wife by Martin van Meytens the Younger, by Bruce Alan Brown

A Noble Imposture: The Fonthill Ewer and Early-Nineteenth-Century Fakery, by Richard E. Stone

Chinese Shells, French Prints, and Russian Goldsmithing: A Curious Group of Eighteenth-Century Russian Table Snuffboxes, by Wolfram Koeppe

A Medal for the Czar, 1888, by Marina Nudel

Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 32, 1997
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