KANTER: Robert Lehman collected not just well-known objects, or objects by name artists, but also smaller, more precious objects that caught his fancy or that triggered an aesthetic response. He bought Renaissance jewelry, as many New York Collectors did. He bought European ceramics, porcelains, goldsmith's work. There's a very beautiful and important pocket watch in the collection. Only one, but it happens to be an enormously important one, belonging to Louis XIV, king of France. And we've chosen to display them here in this sort of wonder cabinet of small, precious objects.

AMORY: Take a moment to find the case that contains a number of pendants and other pieces of jewelry.

KANTER: What makes it so very interesting is that most of it is not Renaissance, but 19th Century. There was a great trade in fabricating Renaissance jewels in the 19th Century, which is to say all the jewels and the gold are real, but the craftsmanship is four centuries too late. We suspect that more than half of them are modern. But amongst the modern pieces are at least three that are of equal importance to Renaissance objects. They're by the greatest forger of the 19th Century. And we have them, carefully labeled and prominently displayed as the work of Reinhold Vasters. They're some of the objects of which we're proudest to be the owners.