Lot Closed

April 5, 03:56 PM GMT

Estimate

1,800 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A set of four frames


Frame 1: A fine late 18th- or early 19th-century Louis XVI Neo-Classical carved giltwood baguette frame, architrave profile; with leaf-enriched astragal-&-triple pearl beneath the top edge; frieze; rais-de-coeur at sight edge


Overall: 80.7 x 70 cm.

Rebate: 72.2 x 61.1 cm.

Sight size: 69.7 x 58.8 cm.


Frame 2: A 19th century French Empire gilded plaster baguette frame, concave profile; with acanthus leaves in the hollow beneath the top edge; plain scotia; leaf tip-&-berry at sight edge


Overall: 81.2 x 72 cm.

Rebate: 70.3 x 61 cm.

Sight size: 68.2 x 59 cm.


Frame 3: A late 18th-early 19th century French giltwood baguette frame, concave profile with incised undulating oak leaf decoration in the hollow and zig-zag sight edge


Overall: 79.4 x 63.5 cm.

Rebate: 72 x 55.8 cm.

Sight size: 69.3 x 53.2 cm.


Frame 4: A late 18th or early 19th-century Louis XVI NeoClassical carved giltwood and plaster baguette frame, architrave profile: with leaf-&-dart beneath top edge; frieze; pearls at sight edge


Overall: 76 x 59 cm.

Rebate: 67.7 x 50.5 cm.

Sight size: 65.8 x 49 cm.


(4)

Frame 1: Sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 18 February 1998, lot 139 (when offered as one of a pair), where acquired.

Frame 2: Sale, Paris, E&VE, 30 January 2012, lot 158, where acquired.

Frame 3: Sale, Paris, E&VE, 17 March 2004, lot 718, where acquired.

Frame 4: Sale, London, Bonhams, 25 October 2000, lot 109, where acquired.

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