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A while back I posted a picture of a myserious comb that I had enshrined. Thank you for all your kind remarks but the ever alert and inquisitive Baer asked why I would group two liners of the same size together. Being somewhat overwhelmed with things around the shop (I miss having help back here but these are the times we are living with) I could have just said, "Because thats what the customer wanted!" and left it go at that but I guess I just couldn't. About a week before Christmas this customer (really a wonderfull kind and gentle lady) came in with her comb and her story at which time I was summoned to the counter from the frame shop to discuss a custom gilded housing for her item. When I explained that I just couldn't do such a job before Christmas she was so disappointed that I started digging around and came up with this little frame that used to be around a painting that my wife and I own but that I had eventually reframed. I thought maybe we could do something with it. She liked the idea but the frame was a little too big she thought and it was 23kt gold and she envisioned silver. I pointed out that it was also a little out of proportion to the comb, a little too squarish but thought we could temporarily house it and then do it right after the holidays. I even offered her a discount on the job for her trouble and the wait. Well,when I showed her a corner sample (thats Foster 380 for those keeping score at home) she saw some slight difference in the shape of the profile that she didn't like...and I couldn't even see! At this point, not wanting to do anything different than she wanted, I agreed and she agreed to pay extra instead of taking a discount! The customer is always right, right? By the way, this is how our painting is framed now. That's Xylos' #85 profile with a liner from I don't know where that I scratched a design in that you can't really see.
Terry, the frame is very nice, but the icanthra leaves don't match the image.
I can't remember the leaves, (I call them ostrich feathers, but I think they are pampas) would be more apprapo I think. although, you would have to learn the secret to extended compo...
I think either the 23717 which is really a Chippendale frame (early impressionist 1830-1870s)
or the Corsuies frame 380-1 which is the later impressionist and borderline nouveau.
either would be grand with a shallow scoop liner toned the same, or even water guild and burnished to let the red or blue show through.
A Buruda liner comes to mind also.
But keep up the great work.
BTW: I love the solid black background for your shoots. You light the piece so well and the back just drops away.... what do you use?
I like the 23717, although a little frou-frou for my personal taste, I think it would work great. What secret are you talking about? Underwires? (I hope I'm not giving anything away!) Probably designed by the court millener. I've rebuilt frames like that but never one from scratch. Probably more trouble than I would want to put into this one. I really like the profile I used. It's a Louis XV, sometimes called a Renoir, sans ornamentation. The Acanthus is a nod to the artists Atelier training though of course the piece is more impressionist. I'm sure you're talking about palmettes, which the French academics also favored. That would have been a good choice. Don't know if I had any around at the time but I've used them before. The backround is just a piece of mat or foam board. I have a piece of fabric for larger pieces. Now if only I were a better photographer with a decent camera... Where are those samples from?
"underwire" is what's in our wives bras.
"Underpin" is close to the proper term if you don't speak frog.... cloutchett(?)
and if you're a woodworker: Nail.
Yeah, the 23717 is a little Fru-fru, but what do you want from Chippendale? The English Palmade (the term I was trying to remember last night) has a cleaner English Regent look. I was thinking that maybe the torus could be micro sanded for a crytalist pave' look; much like the garden.
Of course, it you truly go for the "Impressionist" look, then you have to water guild with yellow, red, and black boul then wash and scrub the entire frame with boiling water to remove most of the gold and boul....
Yeah, like that's gonna happen!!
could you imagine what kind of trouble we could get into if we leaved next door to each other?