This foliage-enriched frame, with hollowed fascia embellished at corners and centres with flowered and husk-festooned paterae, was executed in 1768 by Thomas Chippendale (c.1718-1779) of St. Martin's Lane and was commissioned for Nostell Priory, Yorkshire by Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet (d. 1786). It was ornamented en suite with the frame of Guido Reni's Cleopatra in Lady Winn's dressing room. A watercolour design for the latter had been provided the previous year, and its execution, with husk-enriched "Pateras", was estimated at £22.16.0. but eventually cost £34.16.0. (see C. Gilbert, Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, pp. 168 & 171, and figs. 314 & 310). This frame featured in Chippendale's account of 4th March 1768 as part of "41 Picture frames neatly carved & Gilt in Burnished Gold, of different sizes £63.10.0."