Antique Miniature Italian Nude Portrait In a Gilt Frame, Florentine
$ 34.32
Description
Antique Miniature Italian Nude Portrait In a Gilt Frame, Florentine. This is a beautiful antique miniature portrait depicting a Renaissance-era semi-nude woman inset within a deep, circular gilded Florentine-style wooden frame. The frame is finished with a distressed gold-leaf style backing, known as a Florentine or gesso gilt finish, which shows characteristic texture, age lines, and minor wear along the raised edges. These specific deeply-recessed, circular gold frames with central miniatures were highly popular souvenirs and decorative items produced in Italy and France during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. This is a beautiful antique miniature portrait depicting a Renaissance-era semi-nude woman inset within a deep, circular gilded Florentine-style wooden frame. The frame is finished with a distressed gold-leaf style backing, known as a Florentine or gesso gilt finish, which shows characteristic texture, age lines, and minor wear along the raised edges. These specific deeply-recessed, circular gold frames with central miniatures were highly popular souvenirs and decorative items produced in Italy and France during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
