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highlande7
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Frame origin

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Do any of you clever people have any suggestions as to who may have made the attached frame? Where? What date?

Can you suggest a resource where I can trawl through 19th Century catalogue designs trying to find a match?

Thanks for all suggestions - even the one telling me where to go! :giggle:
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Re: Frame origin

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You are quite right in saying it is a 19th cent. frame.
Unfortunately, the photo you posted doesn't seem to have up-loaded properly, so I can't enlarge it to examine it more clearly.

These frames were manufactured by various companies to their own specification and not following any particular classic profile. The ornaments were cast in 'compo' and these patterns were universal and not proprietary to any particular company. It was down to the particular framing company as to which profile they chose to mill out. Many of these wider profiles are in fact assemblies of several mouldings joined together to suit a particular job in hand. Any catalogues of these patterns are mostly lost along with the history of the company that made them.

From looking at the photo I can see a leaf overlap on the gilding and this suggests that the frame was gilded with gold leaf. To have used so much gold on this frame says that the painting was important enough to merit that much expense.
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Re: Frame origin

Post by highlande7 »

You have educated me Sir. I had no idea how to identify gold leaf overlap.

The painting certainly went through the prestigious Witcomb Gallery in Beunos Aires - so, as you say, someone must have thought highly of it to send it all that way or for a rich Argentinian to buy it on his European tour and take it home. Though signed it's indecipherable - at the moment!

I really appreciate your comments. :clap:

When I get good photographs of the numerical stencil on the stretcher (I doubt it's Christies) I might stretch everyones patience one more time. Thanks again.
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