Details
An important carved and gilded English frame, 18th Century,
with double-bead-and-bar course to the outer edge; outer cavetto; a continuous course of running, stylised ribbed acanthus; the wide and low torus with applied Grecian palm-flower decoration, within a guilloche course; bead course; running fixed-leaf to the sight edge -- 48 7/8 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (124.3 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm.)
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with double-bead-and-bar course to the outer edge; outer cavetto; a continuous course of running, stylised ribbed acanthus; the wide and low torus with applied Grecian palm-flower decoration, within a guilloche course; bead course; running fixed-leaf to the sight edge -- 48 7/8 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in. (124.3 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm.)
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Provenance
This frame was almost certainly supplied to Henry Pelham, 2nd Duke of Newcastle (1720-1794) for Clumber Park, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, and passed by descent to Henry, Earl of Lincoln (b.1907). It was sold at Christie's in London on 4th June 1937, lot 49, (framing a portrait).
The decorative enrichments of this frame relate to ornament on the dining-room chimneypiece at Clumber, designed about 1770 by the architect Stephen Wright (d.1780).
When sold in the great Clumber sales at Christie's in 1937, this frame surrounded a portrait in the style of Sir Godfrey Kneller that was said to be of Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin.
The decorative enrichments of this frame relate to ornament on the dining-room chimneypiece at Clumber, designed about 1770 by the architect Stephen Wright (d.1780).
When sold in the great Clumber sales at Christie's in 1937, this frame surrounded a portrait in the style of Sir Godfrey Kneller that was said to be of Sidney, first Earl of Godolphin.