A carved Flemish frame with coat of arms - image-1

Lot 767 Dα

A carved Flemish frame with coat of arms

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 4.000 € (incl. premium)
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A carved Flemish frame with coat of arms

Gilded and silver leafed mirror. The upper section crowned by two lions supporting a central coat of arms, the rest of the frame carved with scrollwork, garlands and draperies. Losses to the polychromy, retouches, minor repairs. H 109.5, W 89.5, frame interior H 81, W 69 cm.
Around 1700, prbably after a design by Jacob or Johannes Lutma (1584 - 1669)

The coat of arms stands for the alliance "Graaf van de Harcourt" and " Graaf van Vlaanderen".

Literature

Cf. Mitchell/Roberts, Frameworks, London 1996, illus. 37, therein described as a "Dutch auricular looking glass frame". As shown in the painting by Emmanuel de Witte, the frame was also used as a mirror frame and not only for a portrait, as one might first expect (from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, acc.no. 2313 OK).