Early to mid 20th C. European Louis XIV style frame

Frame #2071

A picture frame with gold leaf and a gray background.

$325.00

Description

This frame has a foliate sight edge with a sand panel rising in an ogee profile with a delicate foliate motif between extended corner and center elements with scolling leaf motifs in the Louis XIV style. Original gilded finish with rub through to the bole and a pale wash over. This style of finish is often referred to as “Montparnasse” frames supposedly after the Russian artist who designed them who lived in that quarter of Paris in the early 20th C.

Sight Size: 23 1/4 X 31

Rabbet Size: 24 1/4 X32 1/4

Moulding Width: 4

Any of our frames can be restored, re-sized or have a gilded liner added to alter the size.

Please contact us for more information.

Frame Size Definitions:

Sight Size refers to the smallest interior measure or opening size in
the frame as viewed from the front of the frame.
Rabbet Size refers to the inside measurement from the back of the frame
that the art or a mirror would fit into.

Width refers to the molding width from the inner sight edge to the outside edge of the frame.
Description: The frames are described from the inside sight edge
across the width of the molding to the outside edge.

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