A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 reserved with turned handles

with turned handles

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

Eric and Albert were a comic duo from Northumberland working for the entertainment conglomorate ‘Countryside Laughs’

the head and shoulders portrait of a bearded young gentleman

A Pair of Late 18thC Gilded & Silvered Pine Italian Altar Cards c.1790 reserved with turned handlesOrigin: 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