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Historical Archive: Frames, 16th century to present Not including borders within two-dimensional works or relief sculpture, ring bezels, or metalwork edges of insets on larger objects. Not intentionally including frames added by modern collectors. If you notice such an inclusion, please contact me. Deposition with stamp of Santiago de Compostella, jet in silver, 15th or 16th c., Louvre OA 11112 St. Barbara reliquary pendant, France or Netherlands 1495-1505, gold and enamel, AIC 1938.1179 16th c. mount for Roman or 15th c. intaglio of Antoninus Pius: standing youth, gold, CdM Chab. 2093. For obverse gem see CdM. Resurrection pendant, 16th c. Spain or Spanish colonial: wood, rock crystal, enamel, pearl. AIC 1992.532 16th-c. gold and enamel mount: Iphigenia, Orestes, and Pylades in Tauris or Ulysses and Diomedes seizing Palladion, prob. c.1500-50, sardonyx cameo, Florence MA 14468 velvet border 16th c.: Epitaphios of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin, c.1300, MSOC 4660, which has its own page. Martyr Paraskeva of Rome, gold foil under glass cabuchon/silver gilt/mother of pearl, Novgorod 16th c., Novgorod AM Christ enthroned, sapphire cameo/gold/ruby/emerald/pearl/enamel, Novgorod 16th c., Novgorod AM 3269-78.PEF Our Lady of the Sign, Deesis, saints: bone/silver gilt/turquoise/glass, 16th c., Novgorod AM Deesis, Annunciation, saints: bone/silver gilt/base metal, 16th c., Novgorod AM Our Lady of the Sign pendant, silver/rock crystal/pearl/glass/wood, 16th c. Novgorod, Novgorod AM Piero di Cosimo, Volto Santo (Christ on the Cross), c.1500-10, MFAB 1100. This work has its own page. frame France or Italy, early 16th c., gold, enamel, pearl; for agate cameo of Emperor Tiberius, 14-37 CE. AIC 1992.297 Annunciation and Nativity triptych, enamel, frame gilt copper on wood with traces polychrome and gilding, early 16th c. Limoges, Master of the Large Foreheads, PMA 1930-1-62. For details see PMA. Giovanni Bernardi, Christ before Pilate, obverse, intaglio rock crystal in gold with enamel and gems, c.1547, WAM 41.240. For reverse see Walters. François Clouet, portrait of François de Scepeaux, oil on wood, 1566, IMA 2004.158. frame, Italy, late 16th c.: gold, pearls, enamel; for agate cameo Emperor Claudius as Jupiter, agate cameo 41-54 CE. AIC 1991.375 frame, profile, Italy, late 16th c.: gold, pearls, enamel; for agate cameo Emperor Claudius as Jupiter, agate cameo 41-54 CE. AIC 1991.375 on left Jacopo Ligozzi, 1595 Martyrdom of St. Dorothy, San Francesco, Pescia, which has its own page alabaster memorial to James Hales, c.1596, Canterbury cathedral, which has its own interior page with additional views. 17th c. enameled silver-gilt frame, and double-sided gem attrib. to Giovanni delle Corniole (aft. 1470–aft. 1516): cameo Christ, p.c., access courtesy of Hadrien Rambach. For other views see private collections. Mother of God of the Sign (Platytéra) icon, wood/gesso/glass/metal/tempera/gilding, 17th c., Novgorod AM. For detail and scale view see Novgorod. retable of St. Charlemagne, Hans Ludolff 1655, Sion, Valère basilica, which has its own interior page altar of St. Anthony the Great, 1683, Sion Cathedral. This building has its own page. 18th c. stucco retable, altar of St. Sebastian, Sion, Valère basilica, which has its own interior page altar, Kloster Wienhausen/parish church, expanded and reworked 1701-05, which has its own page Anti-slavery medallion, William Hackwood (Wedgwood) 1787 England: stoneware, steel, ivory. AIC 1912.326 miniature portrait of Catherine the Great, late 18th c. Russia, MAAB miniature portrait of Empress Josephine, Daniel Saint 1805-06, MAAB plaque with hair of Napoleon, silver/gilt/bronze, France 1840s, Hermitage UM-30876. For details see Hermitage. Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1866, Vespasian hearing of the taking of Jerusalem, oil on panel in original frame, UMMA 2004/2.143. This work has its own page. Thomas Eakins, Crucifixion 1880, oil on canvas, PMA 1929-184-24. For details see PMA. iconostasis framework gilded brass and enamel on copper, 1894 design N.V. Sultanov, completed 1896 by I.P. Khlebnikov jewelry firm, Moscow Annunciation Cathedral, which has its own page undated frame: icon Our Lady of the Sign, mid 12th c. before 1169, Novgorod Cathedral, which has its own interior page. This photo not available at high resolution. representation, framed portraits on wall: sarcophagus from Crimea, late 1st/early 2nd c., Hermitage П.1899-81, which has its own page