Handmade Aesthetic style silver photograph frame
Handmade Aesthetic style silver photograph frame
7654
Rare and early handmade Aesthetic style silver photograph frame from the late Victorian era. The border is hand hammered with a mottled effect. There is a cast central surround with a bark finish, a cast and applied beetle in one corner, and a spray of foliage, blossoms and branches in the other. The glass is bevelled.
"Art for art's sake", was a phrase coined by Theophile Gautier in 1835, and became the slogan for the Aesthetic Movement - a movement that set forth to promote the cult of pure beauty in the arts - dream-like & wistful.
Aesthetic silver design focused on decorative surface detail where the shape of pieces was borrowed from an earlier stylistic era, but now covered in a riot of flowers, plants and birds, featuring decorative motifs from Japan; herons, blossom, bamboo, chrysanthemum and butterflies.
Dimensions:
1885
London
Excellent
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