This frame has an oval sight edge with a scallop design at the sight edge and a flat spandrel with flowers and vines at the corners. The outer frame has a narrow cove and leaf and rope twist motif below a flat fillet. The main cove has leaves and vines with a plain quarter round top edge. The corners have vestiges of a leaf and floral design. The sides step back in three flats. Original gilding.
Missing applied ornament, no complete corners
Sight size: 21 1/4 x 26
Rabbet size: 23 1/2 x 27 1/4
Moulding width: 4 1/2
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"This frame has stepped sight edge with a narrow diamond and dart motif and flat top edge. The flat downward slope has a triple leaf and floral motif. Narrow straight sides. Original gilding." Minor ornament loss Sight size: 12 1/4 x 15 3/4
Rabbet size: 12 11/16 x 16 1/8
Moulding width: 1 1/2 -
"This frame has a gilded, stenciled, cove liner with a perpendicular spacing that resembles flutes. The outer frame has a raised sight edge then a cove rising to the top edge with a carved branch motif. Cove sides with a narrow plain back edge. Original finishes." Good Sight size: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2
Rabbet size: 10 1/8 x 12
Moulding width: 2 3/4 -
This frame has lambs' tongue at the sight edge rising in various profiles to a square fillet. The cove rises to an egg and dart motif and the flat top edge. The flat sides slope back, slightly inward. There is evidence of gold leaf under the bronzing. Gesso losses, missing applied ornament Sight size: 23 x 30 9/16
Rabbet size: 24 1/4 x 31 3/4
Moulding width: 3 -
This frame has an oval sand textured mat and the original worn velvet liner. The top edge has curving leaves with a broad, textured profile that rounds downward with leaves and flowers at the corners. The flat back edge has large beads. Original gilding. Excellent Sight size: 5 7/8 x 7 7/8
Rabbet size: 8 1/8 x 10 1/8
Moulding width: 5 -
This frame has running leaf design at the sight edge below a narrow cove rising in the main cove to a steep quarter round top edge. The extended corners have scrolled leaves, straps and geometric elements. Cove sides curving inward. Original finish. Missing one corner, gesso losses, applied ornament losses Sight size: 20 3/16 x 27 3/16
Rabbet size: 21 3/16 x 28 3/16
Moulding width: 3 3/4 -
This frame has a narrow cove at the sight edge with a wider cove above. A beveled frieze rises to another cove and the flat top edge with flat sides. Oiled finish. Excellent -
This frame has a flat liner with a flat profile outer frame covered with leaves and curling tendrils between raised corner blocks topped with four leaves and a center flower. Straight sides. Original gilding. Excellent Sight size: 15 1/2 x 18 5/8
Rabbet size: 16 1/8 x 19 1/4
Moulding width: 2 1/2 -
This frame has a half round sight edge with carved meander. A concave and convex profile leads up a reeded top edge with applied corner ornament in burnished bronze. The sides sides are flat with a narrow center cove. Original finish. Excellent Sight size: 10 5/8 x 13 5/8
Rabbet size: 11 1/8 x 14 1/8
Moulding width: 1 5/8 -
This frame has a flat liner surrounded by small beads and a floral motif on the inner arched portion. The steep cove has crisscrossed strapping surrounding small flowers. A laurel leaf and berry top edge with straps at the corners. Broad cove sides with a narrow strap and leaf design at the back edge. Original gilding. GML, applied ornament losses -
This frame has a narrow cove at the sight edge with a foliate design above, raised flat sanded panel and a carved bead and spiral leaf motif below a squared flat band. The cove has an overlapping acanthus leaf design with large carved shells (one remains) in the corners. The top edge is flat with extended high relief leaves, the corner acanthus leaf is prominently tilted forward. The painted sides are a cove with a flat below. Original gilding. Missing ornament, gesso loss, broken sight edge -
This frame has a sight edge cove, foliate band and cove below a convex profile with a shell and leaf motif. The sides are coved with a plain back edge. Original gilding. Reduced from original size. Minor ornament and gesso losses Sight size: 9 9/16 x 13 9/16
Rabbet size: 10 1/4 x 14 1/4
Moulding width: 2 7/8