Lacquered Frame, Veneto, Last Quarter of the 18th Century

Piccola cassetta portagioie in legno laccato su fondo avorio; sagomata sugli spigoli è retta da quattro piedini a sfera schiacciata. Sui lati e sul piano delle riserve rocaille nei t...

Neoclassical bedside table late 18th century Lombardy. The cabinet is veneered in rosewood, maple, boxwood, and other light-colored woods for inlays; both the front in which the door is housed and the sides are made with a lowered central panel in rosewood, with an octagonal reserve in the center enclosed by an inlaid molded frame; the reserves on a maple background feature architectural inlay with whimsy, temples, statues, and figures. The panels are set in double frames with brass-plated cornices and rosewood veneer arranged head-on and herringbone. An inlaid frame in the base borders the four truncated pyramid feet, and another supports the top in which an alps green marble top is embedded. Lacks and restorations, walnut interior. The cabinet is close to the production of Giovanni Maffezzoli...

Rectangular frame made of carved and gilded wood that combines a smooth thin band inside, with another carved with fajada band and another, to the outside, which combine smooth areas with delicate plant details (these in the same finish as the rest of the molding, highlighted on a striped background). Currently, the value and appreciation of the frames are on the rise due to the search for them by the museums and important institutions, with the aim of giving the works the frames they would have in origin. Hence, similar examples are found in some Vermeer paintings...

Large hand carved and gilded frame. Italyl, late 18th to early 19th century.