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American 24x33 inch Hudson River Gilded Gesso Picture Frame Circa 1875
Located in Hallowell, US
Gilded Gesso Picture Frame, American, 1875. Rabbet Dimensions: 24" x 33.5" Frame profile: 5
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Late 19th Century American American Classical Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

19th Century French Gilded Gesso 15x21 Picture Frame
Located in Hallowell, US
19th century French Gilded Gesso picture frame. 15.5x21 French 1870 Gilded Gesso picture frame
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19th Century French Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Baroque Style Carved & Giltwood Picture / Mirror Frame
Located in Bradenton, FL
19th century Italian elaborately carved gilded and gesso picture frame. Frame features gilt
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood

19th Century Gilt and Gesso Frame attributed to President James Polk Estate
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Early 19th century gilt and gesso picture frame. Found at an estate sale in Columbia, Tennessee
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19th Century American Folk Art Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

French Giltwood and Gesso Picture or Mirror Frame, Late 19th Century
Located in Barntrup, DE
Beautiful French giltwood and gesso picture frame or mirror frame, late 19th century. This
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

European 22x27 inch Gilt Gesso Ornamented Picture Frame circa 1850
Located in Hallowell, US
Gilt Gesso ornamented picture framerame, European, 1850. Rabbet dimensions: 22" x 27" Frame
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Mid-19th Century European Louis XIV Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
By Rocco Lodise
Located in London, GB
19th century giltwood and gesso frame decorated with laurel wreath and fruits.    
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Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Gesso

Antique 19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
H 48.04 in W 31.5 in D 5.12 in
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
By Brocot & Delettrez
Located in London, GB
A fine 19th century gold leaf cover frame decorate in flower motifs.
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Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Gesso

Antique 19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
H 41.74 in W 37.01 in D 4.34 in
19th Century Giltwood and Gesso Frame
By Rocco Turzi Decoration
Located in London, GB
A highly detailed late 19th century gold metal leaf cover frame decorated in golden floral motifs.
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Late 19th Century German Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Gesso

19th Century Carved Giltwood and Gesso Frame
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Italian carved gilt and gesso frame made in the Baroque taste featuring acanthus leaves decoration
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Small Hand Carved Gold Antique Picture Frame
Located in Malibu, CA
Pretty little French Victorian picture frame sits on an ornate round base. Lavish scrolls
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19th Century French High Victorian Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Giltwood

English Regency Wood and Gesso Frame with Eagle
Located in Dallas, TX
19th century English Regency carved wood and gesso frame with eagle. Circa 1870. A fine addition to
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1870s Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

19th Century Louis Style French Painting or Picture Frame Christie’s Provenance
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautiful and antique late 19th century circa 1880's French Louis XV style picture frame, with
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Giltwood

19th Century Antique French Neoclassical Style Drawing Picture Frame 15 x 12
Located in Atlanta, GA
A beautiful and antique late 19th century circa 1880's French Neo-Classical style picture frame
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Beaux Arts Gold Leaf and Gesso Frame, likely British, circa 1880-90
Located in Hallowell, US
Rabbit size: 28" x 36 Really good American or English gilt Gesso Frame, Barbizon late 19th C
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1890s English Barbizon School Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

American 18x28 inch Gold Leaf Barbizon Picture Frame circa 1890
Located in Hallowell, US
Barbizon frame with foliate ornament. Gesso and gold leaf.
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Late 19th Century American Barbizon School Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

American 17x22 inch Hudson River Gilded Picture Frame circa 1875
Located in Hallowell, US
Hudson River Gold Leaf Frame, Cove Gilded picture frame for canvas art, circa 1875. American. Acorn
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Late 19th Century American American Classical Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
Located in New York, NY
Orientalist gilt carved frame. Antique Islamic/Arabesque carved gilt mirror with corner blocking
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Late 19th Century English Islamic Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
Orientalist Gilt Carved Frame
H 34 in W 29.25 in D 3.5 in
Large French Giltwood Frame with Rounded Top
Located in Toronto, CA
This is a spectacular gilt wood frame with a rounded top featuring a large mask of the sun, or the
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood, Giltwood

Nineteenth Century European Gilt Wood Frame, Having Festoons and C Scrolls
Located in Chicago, IL
A Nineteenth Century European gilt and gesso mirror carved in the Neoclassical style having
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Dramatically Large Carved, Gilded and Polychrome Spanish Baroque Frame
Located in New York, NY
A dramatically large carved, gilded and polychrome Spanish Baroque period frame. The top edge
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1630s Spanish Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Paint

Pair of Limoges and Royal Vienna Porcelain Portraits Gilt Framed Plates
By Royal Vienna Porcelain, Limoges
Located in Guaynabo, PR
green band with golden stars. The plate has a large gilt gesso squared frame decorated with acanthus
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Late 19th Century Austrian Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Porcelain

Superb Quality Antique Hand Carved High Relief Gilt Wood Photo Frame Circa 19th
Located in London, GB
solid wood frame (not gesso) with original gold patination. Made in the late 19th century from thick
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1890s European Baroque Revival Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

Superb Quality Pair Antique Hand Carved High Relief Gilt Wood Photo Frames 19th
Located in London, GB
Solid wood frames (not gesso) with original gold patination. Made in the late 19th century from thick
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1890s European Baroque Revival Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

Pair Antique Woven Silk Neyret Freret - After P A Cot
Located in New Orleans, LA
couple in a storm, framed within a Gold Gesso Picture Frame. The Shimmering Silk is Magnificent in its
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Silk, Glass

French 19th Century Wall Mirror Gesso Distressed Frame
Located in London, GB
French 19th Century Wall Mirror Gesso Distressed frame Originally a picture frame, now housing a
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19th Century French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso

Automaton Picture clock in square frame with oval aperture and windmill
Located in London, GB
giltwood and gesso frame. Also within the painting is automaton windmill, again integrated into the picture
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1880s French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso

Stanford White Newcomb-Macklin picture frame pair
By Stanford White
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
PERIOD FRAMES c. 1915 American painting frame pair, (earlier Stanford White design), Newcomb
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Early 20th Century Aesthetic Movement Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Spanish Colonial Baroque Deeply Carved Relief Mirror or Picture Frame
Located in New York, NY
Spanish Colonial period picture or mirror frame, with deeply carved foliage relief in tropical dark
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18th Century South American Spanish Colonial Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Mirror, Wood

Antique French Picture Frame, Gold Leaf, Large made into a Mirror now
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Hi-Quality Large gold leaf French picture frame bought in Paris 30 years ago by me and kept in a
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Early 20th Century French French Provincial Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

French Musical Automation Picture Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
both a cylinder music box and an automaton. A clock is integrated within the arched giltwood and gesso
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Late 19th Century French Other Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Giltwood, Paint

French Musical Automation Picture Clock
French Musical Automation Picture Clock
H 48.5 in W 44 in D 10.25 in
French Musical Automaton Picture Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
arched giltwood and gesso frame, when activated, this painting quite literally comes alive. As the
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19th Century French Other Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Paint

French Musical Automaton Picture Clock
French Musical Automaton Picture Clock
H 48.5 in W 44 in D 10.25 in
Rowley Gallery Framed Mirror Triptych
By Rowley Gallery
Located in Petworth, GB
Depicting dancers The reverse panels have inlay wood motifs The stylised combing of the gilt gesso frame is
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Early 20th Century English Art Deco Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Glass, Wood

Rowley Gallery Framed Mirror Triptych
Rowley Gallery Framed Mirror Triptych
H 15.75 in W 39.38 in D 1.19 in
Georgian Woolwork Picture of Child Playing with Cat
Located in Chelmsford, Essex
. Trees and mountains in the background. Framed in an old, gilded, ornamented gesso frame with rippled
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19th Century British Folk Art Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wool

Period Rubens Santoro Style Venice Oil on Panel Picture
By Eduard Vitali
Located in Roma, IT
follower Housed in a beautiful, molded hand carved giltwood and gesso frame gilded with gold leaves. Panel
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Early 20th Century Italian International Style Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood

Oval 19th Century French Rococo Frame with Shell Ornament
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful 19th century gilt oval picture frame in the French Rococo style, elaborately decorated
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19th Century Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
14th Century. Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and wood. Author: Oliver Samsinger Measurements: (H
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Early 1900s Byzantine Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Early 20th Century Carved Giltwood Rococo Mirror with Crest
Located in Barcelona, ES
difference in this mirror. It would be a nice choice used as mirror or to frame a picture. It wears the
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Early 20th Century Spanish Rococo Revival Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Pair of 19th Century Italian Hand Carved Angel Cherub Sconces
Located in Chicago, IL
mounted. Like picture frames, they have a metal hook on the back for hanging. Dimensions of each sconce
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19th Century Italian Renaissance Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

Gustav Melcher ( German, 1898 -?) Boats off Venice Italy Ink Water Color c. 1918
By Gustav Melcher
Located in Meinisberg, CH
retained its original antique frame – note that it has lost over the years various sections of the gesso
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1910s Naturalistic Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

India Ink, Paper, Watercolor

Lily and Bird
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
], July 8, 1924). It was, he said, his “first truly great picture,” and it continues to be viewed as an
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Early 20th Century American Modern Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Color Pencil, Paper

American Gilt over Mantle Mirror with Cove Molding
Located in Kenilworth, IL
American rectangular Hudson River School style fluted cove molded picture frame has been assembled
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19th Century American Antique Gesso Picture Frames

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Mirror, Pine, Giltwood

Oil on Board, "Yacht Race Off the Coast of France", Circa:1860
Located in Alexandria, VA
shore. The painting is done on board, which helps give the picture an excellent patina. The frame
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

18th Century English School, Lady Catherine Mary Manners as a child
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Heathfield, GB
particularly delicately. The picture set within its original decoratively moulded gilt gesso pierced frame
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18th Century Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Paint

Antique 19th Cnt French Louis XVI Gold Leaf Gilt Oval Mirror with Facetted Glass
Located in Casteren, NL
19th century. The mirror has a solid pine oval frame smoothened with gesso and decorated with ornaments
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Leaf

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna Della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original
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Late 19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Jane Avril" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
, 14.5" width Materials: Lithograph paper, giltwood gesso frame Literature: Lithograph pictured in Art
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1890s French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "L'Artisan Moderne" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
Dimensions: 25.4" height, 36" width Materials: Lithograph paper, Giltwood gesso frame Signed: Artist's
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1890s French Art Nouveau Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Giltwood, Paper

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "May Milton" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
, giltwood gesso frame Provenance: Jean Efron Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Acquired from the above by the
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1890s French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Paper

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork
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Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

19th Century French Giltwood and Gesso Frame
Located in Antwerp, BE
19th century frame with moulded gesso decoration finished with gold leaf and gold paint. Interior
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Pine

19th Century French Giltwood and Gesso Frame
19th Century French Giltwood and Gesso Frame
H 49.22 in W 41.34 in D 2.66 in
c. 1915 - 20 American Modernist frame, gesso and gold leaf on wood
Located in New York, NY
c. 1915 - 20 American Modernist frame, gesso and gold leaf on wood; scalloped outer profile
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Early 20th Century American Modern Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso

Antique 19th Century Ornate Carved Foliate Giltwood Photo Picture Frame Rippled
Located in Dorking, Surrey
. Beautiful ornate picture/ painting frame with carved foliate. This frame could be turned into a mirror with
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19th Century British Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gold Plate, Other

Antique French Gilt Bronze Brass Beveled Glass Photo Frame Picture Holder Stand
Located in Dorking, Surrey
Lovely antique French gilt and beveled glass photograph frame with a brass tied ribbon bow at the
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Ormolu, Brass, Bronze, Other

Large Gilded Frame
Located in Culver City, CA
This wonderful large wooden frame has detailed applied plaster patterns that have been gilt with
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Mid-19th Century European Empire Revival Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Wood, Gesso, Plaster

Large Gilded Frame
Large Gilded Frame
H 51.5 in W 81.25 in D 2 in
Early 20th c Rococo Style Carved Giltwood Italian Frame
Located in New Orleans, LA
Large gesso and giltwood Rococo style frame intricately carved with a solid inner section and an
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Early 20th Century Italian Rococo Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Giltwood

Large 19th c. Victorian Gilt and Composition Frame
Located in San Francisco, CA
The rectangular-form elaborately carved with floral and ribbon bands divided and flanked by acanthus and bellflower swags at the center and each corner. 
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19th Century Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Wood

Three Oval French Louis XVI Style Frames with Ribbon Decoration
Located in Antwerp, BE
A group of three elegant Louis XVI French wood frames with gesso decoration. Center frame shown
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gesso Picture Frames

Materials

Gesso, Pine

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Antique Gesso Picture Frames For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of antique gesso picture frames available on 1stDibs. Each of these unique antique gesso picture frames was constructed with extraordinary care, often using gesso, wood and giltwood. Antique gesso picture frames have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Antique gesso picture frames are generally popular furniture pieces, but Rococo, Baroque and Louis XV styles are often sought at 1stDibs.

How Much are Antique Gesso Picture Frames?

Prices for antique gesso picture frames can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, antique gesso picture frames begin at $249 and can go as high as $15,000, while the average can fetch as much as $1,500.
Questions About Antique Gesso Picture Frames
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021
    Antique picture frames can be very valuable, particularly if they are older and have maintained their high quality. Some designs are considered classically attractive and are more valuable even if they are not as old.
    1stDibs ExpertAugust 24, 2021
    Yes, antique picture frames are considered valuable. They are regarded as high-value collectibles and can often be seen in exhibits without canvases, as art pieces on their own. Made of wood traditionally, antique picture frames remain very popular owing to their ability to be shaped in varied profiles. You can choose from a wide variety of antique picture frames, including designs in antique and vintage, new and contemporary, and 21st century pre-owned styles on 1stDibs.