A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 sub-Architectural & Garden painted with polychrome highlights and

painted with polychrome highlights and standing on a stylised wooden pedestal base with floral decoration

the square legs with fluted pilasters with wonderfully well carved scroll angle brackets and surmounted by roundels

literally left untouched for the last 173 years

Weight: 33

heavy and large lead sculpted figure of winged or flying pig

A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 sub-Architectural & Garden painted with polychrome highlights andOrigin: Italian Period: Rococo Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1790 Heights: 9 Widths: 10. 5 10 Depths: 1 In entirely original condition, the gilded and carved wooden frames sculpted to vegetal motifs and ribbon bow finials, the silvered altar cards or cartaglorias in shaped cartouches showing the original hand written latin texts in gold, red and green, for recital by the priest at mass, and surviving from late eighteenth century Italy. The wholes are