A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Provenance: Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium Collection

Provenance: Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium Collection

A recurrent theme of nineteenth century herbal remedies was the use of savin oil of juniper

which we see on this portrait

fixed by brass buttons with the handle also in thick leather

This is a rather unusual paint box

A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Provenance: Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium CollectionOrigin: Italian, Probably Rome Period: Settecento Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1755 Height: 24 Width: 30 Depth: 1. 5 (all in frame) Dating from the Settecento period the mid eighteenth century painted softwood chapel dedication panel in its original pine and gesso frame with hand painted script on a series of five boards headed DOM for Deo Optimo Maximo over a weighty Latin text for the Grassi family surviving from the middle of eighteenth century