Frames from the Collection of the Richard Green Gallery | Part II

Frames from the Collection of the Richard Green Gallery | Part II

A 20th century British Régence revival-style giltwood and compo frame

ogee profile; with foliate ornament at back edge; scrolling foliate and fanned lambrequin-style corners with rocaille infill, and scrolling foliate and palmette centres, all on an enriched diapered ground; joined by a gadrooned top edge, centred in each run; with scrolling floral sprigs on a cross-hatched ground on the ogee, between shaped mirrored panels; sanded frieze; acanthus leaf-tip on a hatched ground at the sight edge

Lot Closed

April 10, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

400 - 600 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A 20th century British Régence revival-style giltwood and compo frame

ogee profile; with foliate ornament at back edge; scrolling foliate and fanned lambrequin-style corners with rocaille infill, and scrolling foliate and palmette centres, all on an enriched diapered ground; joined by a gadrooned top edge, centred in each run; with scrolling floral sprigs on a cross-hatched ground on the ogee, between shaped mirrored panels; sanded frieze; acanthus leaf-tip on a hatched ground at the sight edge


Overall: 79.3 x 110 cm.

Rebate: 62 x 92.6 cm.

Sight size: 59 x 89.3 cm.

Robert de Balkany, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Sotheby's, 28–29 September 2016, lot 604 (when on Henry Pether, London, a view of Somerset House and Waterloo Bridge by night).1


1 https://aem.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/robert-de-balkany-rue-de-varenne-paris-pf1661/lot.604.html