A French Transitional style carved giltwood and plaster frame in landscape format
concave back edge; S-scrolling back edge and top rail, the latter hung with floral festoons; C-scrolled cartouches at the corners holding classicizing foliate bosses and floral garlands inside a rocaille rim, with leaf projections; strapwork and leaf bud centres clasping the festoons, the top and bottom centres with integral banners inscribed with the name of 'J. Van der Capelle', date and title of the painting for which the frame was made; spiral ribbon; cavetto; rais-de-coeur at sight edge
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April 5, 03:49 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A French Transitional style carved giltwood and plaster frame in landscape format
concave back edge; S-scrolling back edge and top rail, the latter hung with floral festoons; C-scrolled cartouches at the corners holding classicizing foliate bosses and floral garlands inside a rocaille rim, with leaf projections; strapwork and leaf bud centres clasping the festoons, the top and bottom centres with integral banners inscribed with the name of 'J. Van der Capelle', date and title of the painting for which the frame was made; spiral ribbon; cavetto; rais-de-coeur at sight edge
Overall: 73.5 x 78 cm.
Rebate: 48.7 x 54 cm.
Sight size: 47.3 x 52.5 cm.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Pemberton Heywood-Lonsdale (d. 1897), Shavington Hall, Market Drayton, Shropshire;
Thence by descent, when exhibited in London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of 17th-century European Art, 1938, no. 193, and Manchester, City of Manchester Art Galleries, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition, 1957, no. 112;
Until sold ('The Property of a Family Trust'), London, Christie's, 8 July 2005, lot 33, where acquired (all when on Jan van de Capelle, A kaag and a smak in a calm, with fishermen pulling in their catch from a rowing-boat in the foreground, a Dutch frigate and other boats beyond).1
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