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Neoclassical Ogee Fluted Cove Frame

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1840-1890

MediumGilded pine

DimensionsOverall, Frame: 53 1/2 × 70 × 6 in. (135.9 × 177.8 × 15.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object numberF2013.3

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 212

DescriptionThis is a nineteenth-century American Neoclassical Revival frame, with a solid outer molding of four mitered pieces of carved milled pine with gilding and applied composition ornament. Its central features are a narrow 1 ½ in. wide ogee-shaped finely fluted outer cove and a 1 ¼ in. inner sand panel. Additional applied composition ornaments include a laurel-and-berry design and banded corners on the top edge, leaf corners within the cove, strung pearls around the outside of the sand panel, and running geometric ornament bordering the flat-and-hollow sight edge. The sight size is 48 ¾ x 68 ¼ in., and the molding width is 7 in.

Label TextNeoclassical Ogee Fluted Cove Frame, ca. 1840s–1890s American, probably New York Gilded pine Museum purchase F2013.3 ProvenancePurchased from Gill & Lagodich, New York, NY, March 2013.