Italian Baroque Cartoccio Frame

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Rectangular Baroque Cartoccio Frame, featuring deep scrolls connecting with two central keys and foliage with engraved ribs near the corners. … Read more Rectangular Baroque Cartoccio Frame, featuring deep scrolls connecting with two central keys and foliage with engraved ribs near the corners. Gilded in fine gold with a primer of Armenian red bole. The interior is centered by a fabric decorated with embroidered small flowers. In good condition, despite minor losses consistent with a 17th-century date, it comes from a Milanese collection.

Of Lombard origin, this fine 17th-century Baroque frame is sculpted and carved with foliage; the depth of the pronounced scrolls is enhanced by the dark silver oxide finish of the cartocci, the ornamental motifs depicting leaves with curled, curled tips. See less