Marble Picture Frames

A charming gilded brass and stone picture photo frame designed by Italian designer Rita Frascione, Firenze, in the 1980s. The piece features gilded metal framing with marquetry made of brass inlaid and travertine stone in warm beige and gold colors. The back and easel are in brown-black velvet with the company logo, and an engraved signature reading Rita Frascione is visible on the brass hardware at the back. The frame is in good condition, with minor wear on the metal framing. Two out of the four corners have a slightly open distortion, not impacting the structural shape of the frame. Measurements: Overall: 7.07 in wide (18 cm) x 8.69 in high (22 cm). Opening (picture size): 3.57 in wide (9 cm) x 5.13 in high (13 cm). Note: Photo reproduction of movie star included with the frame as a placeholder until you add your photography. Note: Rita Frascione is an Italian designer known for making fine jewelry using semi-precious and rare stones since the 1980s. Rita Frascione makes handcrafted jewelry and decorative objects from a wide variety of semi-precious and hard stones such as coral, amber, turquoise...

Handsome picture photo frame designed by Maitland-Smith in the 1980s, rendered in tessellated marble, stone, and travertine. Assorted color of light pink salmon and sand beige. The b...

A circa 1980s Maitland Smith style dresser top set, box and two frames. They are exactingly cut fitted marble and fossil stone pieces, placed with an artistic eye for pattern and co...

Elegant picture photo frame designed by famed decorative arts design firm Ria & Youri Augousti, Paris. Geometric marquetry with black shagreen textured brass and black and white marb...

A large square Art Deco style photo/picture frame with a graphic pattern in blue and ivory colored marble with brass surrounds. Considering it is marb...

"Photo frame" 1970 brass and inlaid marble.

Sottsass's photo frame released in the 1990s. New old stock in box.    

This Chinese extraordinary natural stone painting of a jagged mountain range is called a dream stone Shih-hua. They are cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art created over tens of millions of years from mineral inclusions that affected the process of ancient organic material which transformed into limestone and finally resulted in marble- a metamorphic hard stone. This art form is centuries of years old since the Ming dynasty. Dream stones became favored art in the west particularly since the 19th century when French collectors named them Pierres de reve. This thin marble stone painting is approximately 1/4 inch; thick and is cut from a large slab of rough material revealing incredible natural patterns in soft white and dark green colors. On occasion, private collectors would invite an artisan to inscribe a poetic description onto their more important dream stones and in this case the artists' seal mark and calligraphy translation reads: Mountain and Water Flow hidden in the Clouds  Dimensions: Frame: Our Arts & Crafts design 13.5 inches high and 13.5 inches wide. Site: 9,5 inches diameter. Provenance: Private Chinese collection, Yunnan, China. Reference: Dreaming of Dreamstones China’s Extraordinary Natural Stone Paintings, Schneible Fine Arts. Dreaming of Dreamstones – World’s first comprehensive English text publication covers China’s extraordinary natural Stone Paintings, by author and dream stone lecturer Douglas Schneible, 35 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-0-578. See photos. Schneible Fine arts have been dealing in authentic Chinese natural stone paintings...