Arts & Crafts, including the Aesthetic Movement - 22nd June 2011

Lot 356

A Pre-Raphaelite gilded oak Rossetti frame

Estimate £600 - £1,000 | Hammer £1300

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Description

A Pre-Raphaelite gilded oak Rossetti frame, square, with carved ivy border, inside carved wave decoration, with Japanese mon decoration to the corners to the corner, unsigned 60 x 60cm., aperture 33cm. diam. Literature Julian Treuherz Pre-Raphaelite Paintings, Manchester City Art Galleries, page 89 figure xii for a detail of similar mon, from the frame of Astarte Syriaca by Dante Gabriel Rossetti