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This auction will be held by Thierry de Maigret at the Hôtel Drouot at 13.30 local time on Thursday 24 February. It includes a variety of frames – some fine examples, priced correspondingly, and some more reasonable, workaday frames and multiple lots; see the entire catalogue online here.

Lot 39: Carved giltwood bolection frame, the torus at the sight edge with a garland of bunched bay leaves centred with sunflowers with bound corners on a hazzled ground; second quarter 17^th century, 66 x 53 cm., north Italian, with restorations, estimate: €1500-1800

Lot 40: Carved and gilded limewood frame, with a garland of bunched bay leaves on the top edge, depending from a foliate clasp at top centre and following the contour of the frame to meet bottom centre (note that this frame is shown upside-down in the catalogue online), with acanthus leaf corners; with shallow relief S-scrolls on the frieze on a textured ground; astragal with beading at the sight edge; mid-17^th century, 57 x 72 cm., southern French, with restorations, estimate: €1800-2000

Lot 41: Carved giltwood Baroque convex frame, decorated with the vestiges of engraved foliate ornament on the top edge; 18^th century, 61.5 x 70 cm., Italian, estimate: €500-700

Lot 62: Carved and gilded NeoClassical oak frame, with egg-&-dart and acanthus corners below the top edge; beading; rais-de-coeur at the sight edge; last third 18^th century, 80 x 63 cm., French Louis XVI, estimate: €2000-2500

Lot 78: Architrave cabinetmaker’s frame with reverse profile, ebonized finish; 17^th or 18^th century, 69 x 59 cm., Netherlandish, antique hanger, estimate: €1200-1400

Lot 80: Bolection frame with wave ornament, and interrupted ripple ornament at the sight edge, ebonized finish; 17^th century, 96 x 73 cm., possibly Neapolitan or Spanish, antique hanger, estimate: €1400-1800

Lot 107: Reverse profile Baroque cassetta, originally silvered and now painted dark green; late 17^th or early 18^th century, 33.5 x 42 cm., Spanish or Italian, antique hanger, estimate: €900-1000

Lot 120: Reverse profile Baroque octagonal frame, with centred bunched bay leaves at the sight edge; parcel-gilt and overpainted with a later wood-grain finish; late 17^th or early 18^th century, overall measurements: 102 x 86 cm., Italian, estimate: €300-350

Lot 131: Carved giltwood Rococo cassetta with prominent pierced and scrolling pediment fringed with rocailles, the upper scrolls with diapering beneath, supporting a pierced trefoil, the scrolls picked out with punched contours; with carved  pendant foliate and sunflower drops; with a diapered band above the upper moulding of the cassetta; the frieze of the latter decorated with punchwork; 18^th century, 29 x 24 cm., Venetian, estimate: €700-800

Lot 172: A pair of NeoClassical oval carved and gilded oak frames, with rais-de-coeur below the top edge; the frontons with pierced bows of pleated ribbon depending from trompe l’oeil nailheads; 57 x 47 cm. and 57 x 46 cm., estimate: €1500-1800

Lot 176: Carved giltwood and polychrome NeoGothic aedicular frame, with panels of pierced gothicizing ornament on a red ground; 19^th century, 78 x 58 cm., estimate: €1800-2500

Lot 178: Carved and gilded limewood reverse profile Mannerist frame, with ovolo chain at the back edge; band of strigillation; centred garland of imbricated foliage and flowers; frieze with cross-cut acanthus-&-leaf bud; with raked fluting on a bird’s beak moulding at the side edge; 17^th century, 88 x 125 cm., Italian, with restorations, estimate: €6000-8000

Lot 182: Carved and gilded limewood garland frame, with leaf back edge, torus at top edge with centred ribbon-bound garland of fruit and foliage with acanthus corners; astragal and beading; leaf-&-dart at sight edge; late 16^th-17^th century, 73 x 61 cm., possibly Netherlandish or Spanish, with restorations, estimate: €1800-2500

 Lot 185: Carved giltwood NeoClassical revival torus frame, reeded and clasped with spiral leaves, with acanthus leaves in the corners, with shaped cut-out leaf sight edge; 19^th century, 128 x 150.5 cm., French or possibly Spanish, estimate: €600-800

Lot 193: Carved Baroque garland frame with acanthus leaf back edge, the torus at the top edge carved with a garland of naturalistic roses, violets, carnations, pinks and leaves, with acanthus leaf corners, with astragal-&-triple bead at the sight edge; stained and polished, 17^th century, 34 x 44 cm., French or north Italian; possibly Netherlandish, estimate: €2000-2500

Lot 204: Carved parcel-gilt and ebonized reverse profile frame, with wave moulding at the back edge, frieze with ripple moulding, wave moulding at the top edge; fluted and ripple moulding at the sight edge; 17^th century, 36 x 30 cm., Netherlandish or Spanish, estimate: €800-900

Lot 209: Baroque revival ogee moulding frame with exaggerated entablature; finished in silverleaf, 19^th century, 57 x 39 cm., Italian, possibly Roman, estimate: €400-600

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Catalogue online: Thierry de Maigret: Antique frames

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