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

sensuality

John Hancock refers to him in a letter in 1880 as: 'A good taxidemist

Augustus William Dubourg (1830-1910)

the unusual handle moulded in the form of a lion

and desirable in a pair

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