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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. -
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Late 19th C. Eastlake frame with crest. This frame has the gold leaf laid directly on the oak base and retains it's original wine colored velvet liner and leafed surfaces. The applied ornament of beads, flowers, leaves and other Arts and Crafts designs are placed symmetrically on the frame, each side being a mirror image of the other. The top corners are a rose on a grained background. The crest has rectilinear floral plaques set below a raised crown of pyramids and fans. -
Late 19th C. gold leaf American oval frame with crest. The oval portion of the frame has san applied ornament ribbon and stick sight edge with a plain cove, raised, gadrooned top edge and convex fluted stylized leaves with scalloped edges. The prominent crest has C-scrolls, curling leaves and flowers and other classic motifs. The original gold surface is worn through to the gesso in places. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Provincial French early18th C. carved and gilded mirror frame. This frame retains it's original mercury gilded mirror and board and batten backing. The dentiled sight edge and cove below the flattened ogee profile is carved with low relief scrolling decoration on a grain d' orge (oat grain) or crosshatched background with corner and center cat ouches on the sides and bottom. The crest had pierced curling leaf forms with a enter shell motif surrounded by C-scrolls and curved leaf at the apex. The original gold leaf surface is worn through in areas to expose the yellow and red bole beneath. -
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. -
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.
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