A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Albeit in a more parlous

Albeit in a more parlous state than the ideal

The pair of beautifully proportioned compressed paper and card bust mannequin forms

and is overall in sound condition but with some losses to note and small damages

The well depicted three-quarter length portrait of a bearded gentleman being the minister Thomas Child (1839-1906)

There isn’t a word to describe it

A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Albeit in a more parlousOrigin: 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