A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 reserved Knight Grand Cross

Knight Grand Cross

where he lived until his death in 1969

The Harland & Wolff Drawing Office Plan Store building was recently demolished and drawings and plans like these then surfaced

the head and shoulders portrait of a bearded young gentleman

It also has similarities to Caravaggio's 'Madonna of the Rosary' originally in the Dominican church in Antwerp and also to the Holy Family with the Young St John the Baptist by Piero Di Cosimo painted in 1520

A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 reserved Knight Grand CrossOrigin: 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