An Italian carved giltwood and black painted frame late 16th / early 17th century

with a demi-lune cresting centred by a seraphim, above a square plate with a projecting top section flanked by winged reclining putti, the innner border decorated with stylised scrolling foliage with a flowerhead at each projecting corner, the sides with a standing neo-classical female figure in drapery standing on a scrolled console with a fruiting swag; now mounted as a mirror