The Butler Hoard - 1st July 2025

Lot 321

A STAMPED BRASS PICTURE FRAME

Estimate £50 - £80 | Hammer £227

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Description

A STAMPED BRASS PICTURE FRAME

LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

of beaded, oval and foliate design, holding a coloured engraving titled 'Tippoo Saib's Two Sons delivered up to Lord Cornwallis', together with a stamped sheet gilt-brass frame with floral foliate decoration, on a wooden backing (2)

30 x 40cm (max)

Catalogue Note

See Gentle and Feild, 'English Domestic Brass', 1680-1810, p.199, no. 346 for similar frames.