Tondo mirror frame, ca. 1490–1500, Italian, Siena, Poplar; carved, gilt; deep red-brown bole., Overall, x 36 cm; sight


Tondo mirror frame, ca. 1490–1500, Italian, Siena, Poplar; carved, gilt; deep red-brown bole., Overall, x 36 cm; sight diam. cm; rebated diam. ca. cm., Frames, Italian, Siena, Round, or tondo, frames housing mirrors or devotional images were a popular type of domestic furnishing in Tuscany in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This example bears the coat of arms of the Cinuzzi family of Siena and is almost certainly of Sienese manufacture


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