The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a wonderful collection of European paintings and frames. I am particularly fond of cassetta frames, of which they have many lovely examples. The small guide book 'Frames and Framings - Ashmolean Guide Books' looks at 34 of the frames in the collection and is well worth getting if you like frames, and plan to visit the museum.
Friday
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Oxford
Labels:
antique carved frame,
Antique picture frames,
cassetta,
Kent,
Louis XIV,
rossetti