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Italian 18th or 19th C. polychrome reverse profile frame This frame has a narrow cove sight edge with a broad torus top edge descending in a cove to the rounded back edge. The original gold leaf has been removed to expose the gesso and red and hello bole beneath. Some traces of leaf still remain. -
English 17th C. carved and gilded frame. This gold leaf frame has an applied ornament foliate sight edge with convex profile above with low relief carved corners and centers with flowers and tendrils with smooth passages between. The cove sides have diagonals and leaves at the outside edge. Original finish and patina.In england these frames are called "Lely" frames after the artist Peter Lely who favored this style for his paintings. -
French carved oak frame, Louis XV style. This ogee profile frame has carved leaves at the sight edge with a flat frieze, swept top edges and carved pierced extended corners and centers with curving tendrils, leaves and C-scroll surrounding seashells. The areas between have small leaves and flowers, the back outside edge has carved imbricated ovals. The frame has no finish and was probably intended to be gessoed with a gold leaf finish. -
French carved and gilded Louis XIII style frame. This gold leaf frame containing a mercury gilded mirror has a curling ribbon and leaf motif at the sight edge, plain scotia and carved oak leaves and acorn at the top edge. The worn surfaces has exposed the red bole and darkened wood underneath. -
European late 19th C. Barbizon frame This gilded, applied ornament frame has a plain sight and outside edge with a broad curved cushion profile with leaves and flowers against a crosshatches ground withlarge acanthus leaf corners Original surface and patina with some inpainting. -
English 17th C. carved silver leaf frame This reverse profile frame has a carved leaf and flower design over a crosshatched ground in the corners and centers between which are burnished plain reposes. The curved sides descend to an outer foliate edge with crosshatched ground. Original surfaces. -
Carved and gilded tabernacle frame in the early 17th C. Italian style This 23 k gold leaf frame has a rusticated and scroll broken arched pediment and a blank entablature supported on rusticated volutes. Extended corners at the bottom are filled with overlapping discs and separated by a pair of rusticated volutes. -
Carved and gilded frame in the early 17th C. Venetian style This 20th C. carved, 23 k gold leaf cassetta frame with extended corners has a cove and torus sight edge with the frieze decorated with pastiglia, (raised gesso), palmettes, tendrils and stylized leaves against a punched background. and a raised outside edge. -
American circa 1830 overmantel mirror frame This carved wood and gold leaf frame has a plain narrow base with half round elements on the sides and top overlaid with acanthus leaves at the bottoms of the columns and large curling leaves at the top corners. Original finish and patina.
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