A very fine Italian gilt-bronze, silver and lapis lazuli mounted frame, Roman second half 18th century

with an arched shaped cresting flanked by a broken pediment above an oval frame cast with lunettes with an inner band of bead and reel motifs with a stylised scallopshell clasp at the top and base, the apron similarly cast to the cresting

Sold lot 497, Da una dimora di Piazza Farnese, Vol. II, Sotheby's, Casino dell' aurora Pallavicini, Rome, 18th May 2004.

Gilding much more golden, less green and much more attractive than in the catalogue photograph. Beautiful quality of casting. There is a very minor break in the lapis lazuli on the right swan-neck pediment which also has a small restored crack as visible from the catalogue illustration. A rare piece with a good provenance, in overall very good original condition.
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