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This auction will be held by Parker Fine Art Auctions, Farnham, Surrey, on 6^th October 2022. It includes, amongst other items, 132 frames from the collection of the framemakers and restorers, Alexander G. Ley & Son; see the entire group online here.

Lot 402: British Baroque panel frame, 1660s; hazzled edge; projecting corner, centre and demi-centres carved with scrolling acanthus and sprigs with roses and florets on a hazzled ground on convex top edge, between shaped reposes; hazzling; acanthus on a hazzled ground at sight edge; finished in silver leaf and lacquered (?); 244 x 152.4 cm; est. £3,000-5,000

Lot 404: British NeoClassical scotia frame; acanthus-&-shield at back edge; flower-&-bud; cross-cut acanthus-&-leaf at sight edge; 183 x 120.7 cm.; est. £800-1,200

Lot 407: French (?possibly mid-European) Rococo frame; bound fasces on back edge; leaf-bound fasces on top edge; corners with scrolling acanthus leaves in C-scrolls; centres on three sides with rocaille panels beneath foliated scrolls; top centre with asymmetrical scrolling acanthus flourish; demi-flowers on a diapered ground; second third 18^th century; 16.2 x 100.3 cm.; est. £800-1,200

Lot 418: Provincial French Baroque frame in Louis XIV style (late 17^th-early 18^th century) with Berainesque foliated strapwork ornament on the top edge; panels of foliated C-scrolls at centres and corners, the latter with trefoils; all ornament in plaster; 122 x 91.5 cm.; est. £300-400

Lot 419: Italian Baroque bolection frame, 17^th century; parcel-gilt and black; 116.8 x 88.8 cm.; est. £800-1,200

Lot 421: French NeoClassical architrave frame, late 18^th-early 19^th century; ribbon-&-stave beneath the top edge; beading at sight edge; 114.3 x 90.2 cm.; est. £400-600

Lot 432: British later 19^th century Art Nouveau-style inlay with spandrels for a circular work, with contour moulding added later; decorated in compo with bellflowers and leaves; 101.6 x 101.5 cm.; est. £100-200

Lot 437: British early 18^th century Louis XIV-style bolection frame with acanthus leaf at back edge; scrolling foliate and floral sprigs on convex top edge alternating at centres with outline gadrooned panels; 96.5 x 63.5 cm.; est. £200-400

Lot 474: British Baroque bolection panel frame, late 17^th century, with flowered back edge between hazzled borders; shaped corner and centre panels with undulating floreted sprigs on a hazzled ground between plain reposes on the top/ sight edge; finished with silver leaf; 73.7 x 61 cm.; est. £600-800

Lot 481: Italian Baroque leaf frame, 17^th century, carved with spiralling acanthus leaves, with leaf corners and centres; with antique hanger; 69.9 x 49.5 cm.; est. £400-600

Lot 483: French Restauration frame, 1810s-30s, with Greek scrollwork corners, with palmettes, flowers and oak leaf sprigs; scrolling, foliate and cabochon centres; rais-de-coeur at sight edge; plaster ornament; 68.6 x 55.9 cm.; est. £150-250

Lot 510: British Baroque bolection frame, first half 18^th century, double acanthus on back edge; acanthus sight edge; parcel gilt and painted black; 52.1 x 43.2 cm.; est. £300-400

Lot 511: French Louis XIV ogee frame, late 17^th-early 18^th century, carved with dentils at back edge; foliated strapwork and floral sprigs on a cross-hatched ground on the ogee, with fanned lambrequins in scrolled cartouches at the corners, ditto with anthemion-like leaf sprigs at the centres; acanthus leaf-&-bud on a hatched ground at the sight edge; 50.8 x 40.6 cm.; est. £600-800

Lot 523: Netherlandish/German veneered ripple frame, 17^th century, with interrupted ripple and ripple mouldings around the back edge; internal outset corners defined by a plain ogee between panels of wave moulding; interrupted ripple mouldings; ripple moulding at the sight edge; possibly intended for a looking-glass; 34.3 x 28.6 cm.; est. £600-800

The sale also contains reproduction frames by Alexander G. Ley & Son, and reproduction looking-glass frames.

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