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gold leaf
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frame alteration: no alteration
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frame feature: Crest or fronton
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frame cross-section: Scotia
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frame feature: Exceptional quality craftsmanship
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frame feature: One of a pair
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frame feature: Oval frame
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frame ornament: Scallop shell and scrolling foliate crest with pendant pearl string (between small runs of beading) on top edge becoming a double spray of berries where it springs from rose-centred floral spray at base
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frame ornament: Scotia with applied interlace of Gothick arches on a punched ground; beading at sight edge
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frame status: Original
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frame style: Gothic Revival
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frame cross-section: Concave
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frame cross-section: Ogee
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frame feature: Compo cracking
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frame ornament: Five individually-designed asymmetric shell-&-rocaille corner & bottom centre cartouches; matching lateral rocaille-&-boss clasps; scrolling rocaille and boss fronton; centred rocaille panels in frieze
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frame ornament: Ovolo chain at back edge; ribbon-bound fasces at top edge; fronton with cabochon shell, scrolling foliage and raffle leaf crest, trailing husks; acanthus leaf-&-bud on hatched ground at sight edge
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frame status: Reproduction of non-period frame
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frame status: Reproduction of period frame
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frame style: Louis XV
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frame style: Provincial Rococo style
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unknown framemaker
British, Gothic Revival frame
4th quarter of 18th century
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unknown framemaker
British, Gothic Revival frame
4th quarter of 18th century
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Continental Europe (?), Provincial Rococo style frame
20th century
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French (?) Louis XV frame
20th century