A late 17th-early 18th century British carved giltwood panel frame,...

A late 17th-early 18th century British carved giltwood panel frame, very much reduced on the short sides
ogee profile; with flowered back edge; the corner panels with acanthus leaves, and leaf, flower and berry tendrils on a hazzled ground, truncated and remade with a punched ground on the short sides, and the centre panels with leaf, flower and berry tendrils on a hazzled ground on the long sides, those on the short sides lost, between mirrored panels on the ogee; acanthus leaf-tip at the sight edge; bare wood inlay

Overall: 53.5 x 88.7 cm.
Rebate: 36.7 x 72.1 cm.
Sight size: 34.2 x 69.8 cm.

Condition Report:
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Provenance:
Nicholas Boler, Esq.;

By whose Executors sold, New York, Christie's, 5 December 2003, lot 117 (when on Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S., The Second Set), where acquired.1

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