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AN ITALIAN 16TH CENTURY CARVED, PAINTED AND GILDED TABERNACLE FRAME, the pediment with heads, harpies and lions' heads, and with scrolling foliage in pastiglia on blue ground; the entablature with pastiglia harpies and scrolling foliage on blue ground; half columns at sides; detached fluted columns in front of pastiglia decoration of fruit, masks and cauliculi on blue ground; the predella with a satyr at centre flanked by two birds and scrolling foliage, the pedestals with female figures and the bases of side columns with atlantes, all in pastiglia on blue ground
10 7/8 x 9¾in. (27.6 x 24.8cm.)
10 7/8 x 9¾in. (27.6 x 24.8cm.)