Late 19th C. American Louis XV style gold leaf and applied ornament frame

Available from Atelier Richard Boerth when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

This frame has a leaf and tendril design at the sight edge and a flat frieze rising up in an ogee profile covered in a dense array of tendrils and flowers. The extended corners and centers have circular bands that curve upward into curling tendrils and leaf tips with a profusion of other foliate shapes. Cove sides with curling leaf motif at the back edge. Original gilding.