The Frame Blog

This auction will be held by Thierry de Maigret at the Hôtel Drouot at 1.30 p.m. local time on Friday 9 February. It includes a variety of frames, mainly French – some fine examples, priced correspondingly, and some more reasonable, workaday frames and multiple lots; there are a large number of polished wood frames. See the entire catalogue online here.

Lot 11: a pair of Japanese lacquered wood frames; architrave profile with shallow cushion frieze, decorated with blossoming branches and birds in gold on a black ground; 19th or 20^th century; 43.5 x 59 cm.; estimate: €600-800

Lot 86: carved giltwood Louis XIII cushion frame, with corners and centres decorated with incised scrolling foliage between shaped mirrored panels, and a central cavetto repainted blue and bordered with incised geometric ornament; 17^th century; 85 x 60 cm.; estimate: €400-600

Lot 90: carved giltwood Louis XIV frame; convex profile, with projecting C-scrolling foliate corners with leaf buds, and centres with shells, both on a diapered ground, joined by scrolled strapwork with leaf buds and florets, infilled with diapering, against a cross-hatched ground on the convex top edge; sanded frieze; acanthus-&-flower on a hatched ground at the sight edge; late 17^th century; 67.5 x 54 cm.; estimate: €500-800

Lot 119: carved, moulded plaster and gilded Bourbon restauration Greek corner frame; ogee profile, with anthemion and Greek scrollwork corners; leaf tip sight edge; 1820s-30s; 62.5 x 52.5 cm.; estimate: €80-120

Lot 121: carved giltwood Louis XV frame; concave profile, with S-scrolling bound fasces at the top edge, joining scrolling foliate and fanned lambrequin corners with scrolling foliate, shell and rocaille centres; undulating rinceaux in the hollow; acanthus-&-leaf bud on the ogee at the sight edge; mid-18^th century; 61 x 85.5 cm.; estimate: €3,500-4,500

Lot 127: carved cherry wood (bois de sainte-Lucie) frame intended to hold a crucifix, in the style of César Bagard of Nancy, with a convex profile covered overall with small-scale shallow relief scrolling foliate and floral decoration, with acanthus leaf corners and a pelican in her piety at the bottom centre; 17^th century; 71.5 x 39 cm.; estimate: €1,000-1,500

Lot 149: carved giltwood Rococo frame, North Italian or Middle European; concave profile, with bound withy-like S-scrolling top edge joining C-scrolling rocaille corners and asymmetric leaf centres; with rocailles in the hollow and rinceaux with florets; acanthus leaf tips on a hatched ground at the sight edge; mid-18^th century; 45 x 40 cm.; estimate: €800-1,000

Lot 150: carved giltwood NeoClassical frame; architrave profile, with leaf-&-dart beneath the top edge; beading at the sight edge; signed at the back with the stamp of ‘E. L. INFROIT’ for Etienne-Louis Infroit (maître-sculpteur 14 August 1759; maître-menuisier 12 October 1768), 49.5 x 47.5 cm.: estimate: €800-1,000

Lot 169: carved giltwood Louis XIII garland frame; torus profile, with a centred garland of bay leaf-&-berry, rose-&-rose leaf at the top edge, with acanthus leaf corners and centres; the burnished concave frieze incised with an undulating vine of leaves and flowers, acanthus corners and centres, on a cross-hatched ground; a centred imbricated husk moulding at the sight edge; 17^th century; 72 x 59 cm.; estimate: €2,500-3,000

Lot 226: carved giltwood NeoClassical frame with plaster ornament; concave profile, with pearls between the double scotia and rais-de-coeur at the sight edge; last third 18^th century; 67.5 x 47.5 cm.; estimate: €800-1,000

Lot 233: Baroque Italian carved giltwood and polychrome cassetta; reverse profile, with gilded panels at the corners incised with acanthus leaves on a hazzled ground, between panels of faux marbre on the outer frieze and ebonizing on the inner frieze; late 17^th or early 18^th century; 45 x 35.5 cm.: estimate: €1,000-1,200

Lot 296: Baroque Spanish carved polychrome frame; bolection profile; painted black; probably 17^th century; 76 x 103 cm.; estimate: €800-1,000

Lot 317: Italian carved  and silvered architectural cassetta; architrave profile, the frieze overlaid with a woven fabric, the remains of a silvered finish; 16^th or 17^th century; 77.5 x 113 cm.; estimate: €500-700

Lot 326: carved giltwood provincial French Rococo frame; concave profile, with scrolled rocaille corners and centres; the hollow fringed with rocailles; mid-18^th century; 85 x 108 cm.; estimate: €2,000-3,000

Lot 327: carved giltwood Louis XIII-XIV frame; convex profile with scrolling strapwork, leaf buds, cosses-de-pois and florets on a cross-hatched ground, with acanthus leaf corners; sanded frieze; raking acanthus leaf sight edge on a hatched ground; second half 17^th century; 80.5 x 121 cm.; estimate: €2,000-3,000

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Viewing days: Wednesday-Friday 7^th -9^th February 2024, 9 rue Drouot, Paris 75009

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