A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles This superb assemblage is a

This superb assemblage is a fine example of this variant of tromp l’oeil

the drawing by the late John Flaxman

This is a rather unusual paint box

Provenance: Fagin`s Phonograph Emporium Collection

"If you had not yourself lost your tail

A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles This superb assemblage is aOrigin: 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