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Metal Leaf Finish No. 2 | |
118 Moulding reduced | Panel Frame |
130 Moulding | This photo shows the 130 moulding with a bronze finish and a linen slip. The frame can be gilded or painted, and can be used without a slip. |
180 Moulding | This is a simple moulded hollow, used for a wide variety of subjects, including portrait, landscape and marine subjects. This photo shows the moulding with a bronze finish, but a gilded finish is equally appropriate. |
180 moulding gilded | This is a simple moulded hollow, used for a wide variety of subjects, including portrait, landscape and marine subjects. This photo shows the moulding with an antiqued gilded finish, but a bronze finish is often used for a more subdued effect. |
19th Century English Gold | |
19th Century Metal Leaf | |
87 moulding | |
Antique Bronze | |
Antique Gold Metal Leaf | |
Antiqued Wood/ Grained Finish | This is a painted finish intended to simulate wood, popular during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. |
Art Deco Ribbed | |
Art Nouveau Whistler Outer | A Pre-Raphaelite gilt reeded frame with stylised palm leaves and roundel adornments. Main picture with the addition of an inscribed gilt spandrel. |
Bevelled Gesso Slip | A bevelled gesso slip that can show between 1/2" and 1", and which can be coloured to suit. |
Bevelled Gilded Slip | A watergilded bevelled slip. The slip can be made to show any width between 1/2" and 1 1/2" |
Bevelled Linen Slip | A bevelled slip with hand-laid English linen. The slip can be toned to a darker shade if required. |
Bevelled Linen Slip gilded edge | An inner slip with hand-laid English linen, with a gilded hollow to the sight edge. The slip can be toned to a darker shade if required. |
Black and Red Lacquer | A simple rectangular profile frame with scratch incised lines, with a red and black lacquer finish. |
Black Etcher | |
Box Frame | A small 'shadow' or 'box' frame with an internal recess for framing three dimensional items, or to set a flat work away from the glass. This frame is made from limed ash, but can also be made in oak or beech. ( SW3850)
Artwork reproduced courtesy of the artist, Graham Davies (01787 269113 graker@tesco.net) |
Box Modern Ribbed Art Deco | A wide Art Deco style frame with silver gilt ribbed panel and polished black outer edge. |
Box Spanish No 5 | |
Bright Metal Leaf | |
Bright Silver | |
Bullnose Gesso slip | A gessoed flat slip with a rounded sight edge. The slip can be made to show any width between 1/4" and 1" |
Carlo Hollow 4 inch | A simple bold version of the traditional Carlo frame. |
Carlo Maratta 3 inch | A classical concave frame. |
Chinese Export Black | |
Chinese Export Black and Gold | Another variation of the Chinese Export frame this time with gilt applied. |
Chinese Export Faux Mahogany | A variation of the Chinese Export frame. |
Chippendale Swept | |
Chippendale Swept (small) | A small Chippendale type swept frame used on an 18th c miniature |
Chippendale Swept Pierced | This pierced English swept frame style is derived from the rococo patterns of Thomas Chippendale |
Chippendale Swept Pierced Medium | This pierced English swept frame style is derived from the rococo patterns of Thomas Chippendale |
City Pattern | |
City Pattern | |
City Pattern | A largely traditional City pattern frame, but with a flat top rail to give a simpler, more contemporary profile. |
City Pattern with bead and reel (Metal Leaf) | Traditional City Pattern hollow with bead and reel decoration to the upper quirk, in Metal Leaf for a less costly finish |
City Pattern with husk | |
City Pattern with shot in Rose Gold | A traditional City Pattern hollow with shot moulding in the top quirk, finished in Rose Gold to give a warmer colour to the frame. |
City Pattern with spandrel mount | A City pattern frame with an inset spandrel for a circular painting. This technique can be used for oval or arched top pictures as well. |
City Pattern with top rail | This traditional City pattern hollow has a top rail in the 'ribbon & stick' design, based on Roman 'fasces'*
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(In classical times a FASCES was a cylindrical bundle of elm or birch rods bound together by red bands, symbolising authority) |
Cushion (gilded) A154 | A simple cushion frame, watergilded on the top surface, the back painted dull brown |
Dark Antique | |
De Louis Large Modern Hollow | A wide modern hollow with painted decoration, gilded corners and gilded hollow. (1143) |
De Louis Modern Hollow 813 | A wide modern hollow with painted decoration, gilded hollow and gilded slip. (813) |
Decappe finish | A heavy French finish with gesso on top of gilding or colour. It simulates an antique frame which has deteriorated to retain only traces of the original gilding. |
Dutch Ebonised Ripple | A Dutch Style Hollow with ripple mouldings. Suitable for small landscapes, genre pictures, any type of miniature. |
Dutch Reverse Bevel | 17th C style Dutch Reverse Bevel in parcel gilt with chatter mouldings to front and rear. |
Dutch Ripple 3.5" | A Dutch Style Hollow with ripple mouldings. Suitable for small landscapes, genre pictures, any type of miniature. |
Dutch ripple frame with spandrel | This is the four inch Dutch Ripple Frame shown with a circular spandrel and gilded sight edge, framing a Dutch landscape |
Dutch Running Pattern | History: This convex acanthus and flower frame is a version of a 17th century Louis XIII period frame. Dutch versions were often simpler and less detailed than the French equivalent. |
Dutch Veneer Amboyna | A Dutch box frame with bevelled panel, veneered in amboyna and parcel gilt. The upright edge of the frame is solid oak. |
Dutch Walnut Box | A wooden and parcel gilt box frame in the 17th century Dutch manner, with hand laid walnut veneers in the panel and scratched distressed gilded mouldings to the back rail and sight edge. The outer part of the back rail, not visible in the photograph, is stained waxed oak |
Dutch Walnut Box | A wooden and parcel gilt box frame in the 17th century Dutch manner, with hand laid walnut veneers in the panel and gilded mouldings to the back hollow and sight edge. The outer part of the back rail, not visible in the photograph, is stained waxed oak |
Ebonized | |
Empire Running Pattern | A fine concave panel frame shown here with a gilt fluted slip. |
English (Williams) | |
English Corners & Centres (Large) | A very impressive English Corner & Centre frame, particularly good with portraits. |
English corners and centres (medium) | |
English Double Step | |
English Double Step Spandrel frame | This frame has two 'spandrels' in the top corners to make an arch shape. Spandrels in each corner can be used to frame a circular picture. |
English no 3 | |
English Swept Metal Leaf | A swept frame in the English manner, in metal leaf. |
English Wainwright | The English form of the Louis XIV corner and centre frame is characterised by its simplified decoration and lack of excess details. |
Faux Bamboo | A simulated bamboo moulding, with hand-painted decoration, suitable for chinoiserie or oriental watercolours and drawings. Different widths and colours can be supplied. |
Fluted Gilded Slip | A watergilded flat slip with a small hollow to the sight edge. The slip can be made to show any width between 1/4" and 1 1/2" |
Fluted Flat | |
Fluted Flat | A small neoclassical fluted frame, suitable for watercolours or small oils |
Fluted Hollow with acanthus corners | |
Fluted Linen Slip | A flat slip with a small hollow to the sight edge, covered with hand-laid English linen. The slip can be toned to a darker shade if required. |
Fluted No 1 A | A fine fluted frame with an inscribed acanthus leaf corner design and husk edging. |
Fluted No 1 with ribbon & stick | A part carved frame that works well with small Victorian landscapes and sporting pictures. |
French Cross Hatch | |
French Cross Hatch Small | |
French Drawing no 2 | |
French Drawing no 4 with rope | A French Drawing frame with rope twist and shot to the front edge. This example has a pale french wash on the gold, and is shown with a stepped gesso slip. |
French Finish | |
Georgian Swept | |
Hitchens | An essentially square profile, mainly aged gesso with a gilded hollow to the top edge, and a deep gessoed hollow to the inside. The finish is scratched and aged to give a soft effect |
Hollow 1 inch with spandrel | A small frame for miniatures, shown here with an oval gilded spandrel mount with applied paterae. |
Hollow 920 bird pictures | A multiple aperture frame with 18th century Martinet bird prints behind mounts and glass, set into a gessoed subframe and framed by a decappe textured gesso hollow frame |
Hollow 924, small | This simple hollow has a painted panel with a white wash over the panel and gilded edges. It also shows a painted front edge on this photo. |
Hollow Black and Gold | |
Hollow Brown and Gold | |
Hollow Semi cushion, painted panel | |
Hollow small gesso finish | |
Hollow with distressed gesso finish (A122) | This is a plain hollow with a chipped and washed coloured gesso finish, with traces of gold showing through from underneath. |
Hollow with gadrooned edge 'Montague Dawson' | |
Hollow with gadrooned rail Metal Leaf | |
Hollow with greek key | A four inch gilded hollow with greek key motif |
Islamic 100 | |
Islamic 200 | |
Islamic 300 | |
Islamic 400 | |
Islamic 400 Variation | |
Islamic 500 | |
Islamic 600 | |
Islamic 700 | |
Italian 'Sgraffito' No 86 Reverse | A deep brown and gilded reverse frame with 'Sgraffito' is based on Italian 'cassetta' frame designs of the mid 16th to mid 17th centuries. It is suitable for strong portraits, as well as contemporary art. |
Italian Box | The panel of this frame is decorated by 'sgraffito', a coloured panel with scrolling arabesques scratched through to reveal the gold beneath. 'Cassetta' frames like this originated in Italy in the 16th century.This frame can be made in any width, with any colour in the panel. |
Italian Ogee | A classic Italian Old Master frame with ogee profile, scribed acanthus gilded corners, gilded shot to the sight edge and distressed black panels. This example has physical distressing and simulated woodworm holes |
Italian Panel no 7 | An Italian style box frame with sgraffito decoration in the panel, outlined in different coloured boles showing under the gold leaf. |
Italian Panel Reverse | A gilded and painted frame, with a traditional black/brown distressed panel. The panel can be painted in any colour, the width can be varied, and inscribed decoration can be applied. |
Italian Reverse 8.5" | A wide reverse frame, the panels grained as exotic timber, the gilded mouldings distressed. |
Italian Reverse no 89 | This black and gilded reverse frame is based on Italian 'cassetta' frame designs of the mid 16th to mid 17th centuries. It is suitable for strong portraits, as well as contemporary art. |
Italian Silver | |
Kent Mirror | |
Kent Mirror 2 | An alternate version of the Kent Mirror |
Kent Ornamented | 18th Century Palladian frame based on the designs of William Kent with guilloche central design lined with egg and dart outer ornament, ribbon and stick inner ornament and stylised corner leaves. This frame is also sometimes known as a 'Kit-Kat' frame. Suitable for portraits and mirrors. |
Kent Ornamented | 18th Century Palladian frame based on the designs of William Kent with guilloche central design lined with egg and dart outer ornament, ribbon and stick inner ornament and stylised corner leaves. This frame is also sometimes known as a 'Kit-Kat' frame. Suitable for portraits and mirrors. |
Large Spanish Reverse Gilded | A fully gilded example of the Spanish Reverse |
Le Brun no 5 | This type of French Baroque flower corner frame with fanned lambrequins from the Louis XIV period is named after the artist Charles Le Brun.
The frame shown has an antique distressed finish, which is optional.
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Le Brun No.6 | |
LeBrun no 1 | This type of French Baroque flower corner frame with fanned lambrequins from the Louis XIV period is named after the artist Charles Le Brun. |
LeBrun no 3 with grained finish | This frame is shown with a faux wood finish, with a parcel gilt front moulding. Graining to simulate exotic woods or marble was fashionable in many different periods during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. |
LeBrun no 3b | This type of French Baroque flower corner frame with fanned lambrequins from the Louis XIV period is named after the artist Charles Le Brun.
The photo shows the frame with optional linen slip. |
LeBrun no 4 | This type of French Baroque flower corner frame with fanned lambrequins from the Louis XIV period is named after the artist Charles Le Brun.
The photo shows the frame with optional linen slip. |
Lely Pattern | An late 17th century English stylised version of the French 'Le Brun' design, the convex profile with plain panels interspersed with carved floral corners and centres. The period examples were either gilded or frequently silvered. |
Lely Pattern medium | A smaller version of the Lely pattern |
Lely pattern no corners | This version of the traditional Lely pattern English corner & centre frame has no carved corners. |
Light Bronze | |
Louis XIII No 2 Enlarged | A simple leaf patterned frame with crossed ribbon centres and double front ornamentation. |
Louis XIII No 4 | |
Louis XIII no 9 | A Louis XIII style acanthus & flower style frame, originating in the 17th century, shown here with a double front edge ornament. |
Louis XIII Ovolo | A convex Louis frame with high relief foliate panel and acanthus corners. |
Louis XIII reverse | A Louis XIII style oak leaf reverse frame, shown here with optional painted bevel slip, and with antiqued cracked gilding. |
Louis XIII Reverse | |
Louis XIV Lilypad with panel and front hollow | A good Louis XIV style 'corners and centres' frame for large landscapes and portraits of any size. A wide moulding on a smaller portrait can be used to suggest importance. |
Louis XIV no 0 'Spohler' | A small corners & centres frame with a running pattern panel, very suitable for small scale detailed paintings such as Dutch 19th century Romantic school. |
Louis XIV no 1 | A small corners & centres frame with a running pattern panel, shown with an optional special wide linen slip with gilded and painted sight edge hollow. |
Louis XIV No 15 | A decorative 18th Century convex panel frame. |
Louis XIV No 2 | A popular panel frame suitable for 19th century street scenes. This example is shown with a grey French wash. |
Louis XIV No 21 | A detailed concave panel frame that works well with fine landscapes. |
Louis XIV no 3 'Cortes' | Corners & centres frame, shown with optional linen slip |
Louis XIV no 3 'Lilypad' | |
Louis XIV no 4 simplified | This is a simpler version of our usual Louis XIV no.4 frame, with a plain top rail, bolder corner sprigs and no incised decoration. |
Louis XIV no 4 with gadrooned rail | This frame is a stronger version of our normal Louis XIV no. 4, with a gadrooned top back rail and a wider and higher profile. Can be a good portrait frame. |
Louis XIV no 4A Convex | |
Louis XIV no 5 'Marie Louise' | |
Louis XIV no.4 | Louis XIV style corners & centres frame, with a 'ribbon & stick' top rail, incised and punched decoration to the corners, plain panels |
Louis XIV Panel frame | |
Louis XV 'Ouless' straight sides | The panel on this frame is completely hatched by hand. |
Louis XV 'Pin French' Swept | |
Louis XV 'Regency' Straight sided | |
Louis XV 'Regency' Swept | A Louis XV pattern swept frame, with cross-hatched panels |
Louis XV 'Yvonne' Swept | |
Louis XV no 10 straight sides | This frame has a Louis XV style corner, with upstanding curled sprigs, with straight sides and a plain top rail |
Louis XV no 10 straight sides semi centres | A pretty Louis XV style frame with straight sides and semi-centres. Illustrated with an optional fluted linen slip. |
Louis XV no 10 Swept | |
Louis XV no 4 Double Swept | This design has a double sweep to the top rail. It can be made with a single sweep for a simpler outline. |
Louis XV no 4 special pierced Swept | A version of the Louis XV no.4 design, but with a shaped panel, and pierced semi-centres. Illustrated with an optional gold bevel slip. |
Louis XV No 5 Swept | A beautiful highly ornamented double swept and pierced frame. |
Louis XV no 8 'Ohana' Swept | |
Louis XV no 8 Ohana Large version | A larger version of our standard 'Ohana' swept frame, shown here with an old size finish, and a gilded fluted slip. |
Louis XV no 9 Swept | Shown with 1" gilded fluted slip. |
Louis XV Regency Swept (Hatched) | A version of our Regency Swept frame, but with a hatched panel |
Louis XV Regency Swept C & C | An elegant frame suitable for large portraits or landscapes. |
LVV Modern Box | A very contemporary painted and distressed shabby chic box tray frame. Suitable for modern art and modern living. |
Marie Louise Swept | A simple yet beautiful swept frame for small landscapes. |
Medium Antique Gallery | A medium antique finish, some bole colour showing through on highspots, the gold toned and washed with powdery pigments to moderate the brightness of the gilding. |
Medium Antique Silver | |
Medium Bronze | |
Metal Leaf Finish No. 1 | |
Modern Box 5 inch | This box frame has distressed gilding to the back and front edges, with a linen flat coloured to suit. This example has a stepped gesso slip which is optional. A suitable frame for early to mid 20th century oils. |
Modern Finish | The gold rubbed slightly through to the coloured bole, lacquered for protection, but with no powdery wash, leaving a brighter effect. |
Montague Dawson 5 inch | A larger version of our usual Montague Dawson decorated hollow, shown here with an optional gilded fluted slip. Suitable for marine subjects, landscapes and portraits amongst others. |
Museum Finish | An antique finish, with scratched gilding, powder and stains, watermarks and general distressing to give the impression of an original period frame. |
Neoclassical Fluted Hollow | |
Neoclassical Fluted Hollow small | Shown with stepped gold slip. |
Nicholson | Gilded on black bole. |
Oak Dutch Box | |
Oak Etcher, oil gilded | |
Old Gold Metal Leaf | |
Patterson Box | The top rail and sight edges are watergilded, the panel is usually coloured with bole and bronzed over. The bronze is then distressed to reveal the colour underneath.This version however is entirely gilded. |
Regency Hollow Decappe finish | This traditional hollow frame with a distinctive Decappe finish which is a finish in the French style. |
Regency no2 Hollow | This frame has a distressed old brown finish with traces of bronzing in the recesses of the decoration. It can be gilded if required. |
Reverse Gilded | |
Sabin Straight Sides | A Louis XV corner and centres frame, with a dark antique finish. |
Shannon Oak Frame | This reverse oak frame, oil gilded onto polished oak, is a copy of a frame used on a number of occasions by Charles Shannon (1863-1937) made by Chapman Bros of London. See Self-Portrait, 1897, National Portrait Gallery, London & Miss Kate Harwood in a Marmiton Dress, 1897, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia |
Shell Pattern | |
Shell Swept | |
Small Carlo Hollow | |
Spanish Box Pattern 164 with incised decoration | This version of our Spanish Box has the usual ball and claw decoration to the top rail, but the corner decoration is incised into the panel |
Spanish Box Pattern 164 with raised corner decoration | |
Spanish No 5 Panel | |
Spanish Reverse no 3 | This is a classic Spanish frame design dating from the 17th century with gilded corners and a painted panel. The panel is often found with faux painted marble, as in the Portrait of Don Pedro de Barberana by Velasquez, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA |
Square chamfered whitewashed | A simple 3" rectangular section frame with stop chamfered edges and protruding pegs to the corners. The style of this frame is that of Victorian oak ecclesiastical woodwork, although given a contemporary whitewash finish in the illustration. It can be given a woodgrained finish, or made from solid oak if required. |
Square gilded | |
Three Step Art Deco Combed | An inverse stepped frame with a combed gesso panel. This frame can also be made without the combed effect |
Tray or floater frame | This contemporary painted frame is designed so that the artwork sits within the confines of the frame and not behind a rebate, especially suitable for art that is painted either fully to the edge or over the edge of the canvas. |
Tryptych Mirror | A Neo-Classical mantelpiece mirror frame with Greco- Roman embellishments complimented by three mirrored sections. |
Venetian Reverse | |
Venetian Reverse 2" | |
Victorian Running Pattern | |
Washline mount | We make our traditional washline mounts by hand, with watercolour washbands. Mounts can be wrapped in paper, or fabric, or for textiles we also make gesso mounts. |
Watts Pattern | |
Watts Pattern | |
Watts Pattern Small | A reduced version of a Watts pattern frame suitable for smaller portraits. Portrait by Edgar Bundy courtesy of Mr & Mrs T. Bundy |
Whistler | |
Whistler small | |