3960437 Carved giltwood Sansovino frame, now a mirror (poplar) by Italian School, (17th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Giltwood "sansovino" poplar frame, now with a mirror plate, carved profusely with pierced foliate decoration, swags, cornucopii and with angel heads retaining their original polychrome. Italy, probably Venice, 17th century. Fitted with a beautiful foxed antique mercury mirror plate. This type of picture frame, richly carved with scrolls, masks and swags of fruit, is known as a Sansovino frame after the Italian sculptor and architect Jacobo Sansovino (1486-1570), whose buildings were particularly influential on the decorative arts from about 1530.); Italian, out of copyright.