An antique English Giltwood Lely frame. The molded borders with stylized leaf scroll reserves at the centers and corners and a ribbon twist inner frame. Paper label on the reserve S.T. Townshend working carver, gilder, looking glass and picture frame manufacturer, 18 Charing Cross, Norwich. Circa: second half of the 17th century. Provenance: The Sothebys New York, The Frame Sale An Important Collection of European Picture Frames 1500-1900, May 18, 2006, lot 91. References: Sothebys: The Frame Sale: An Important Collection of European Picture Frames 1500-1900 auction, sale N08238 held on May 18, 2006, in New York. The catalog contains 160 lots, fully illustrated in color, on 108 pages. This auction catalog contains various examples of antique picture frames of European origin such as Italian giltwood, pastiglia cassetta, Italian ebonized, Florentine Baroque, Salvator Rosa, Spanish cassetta, Dutch ebony and ebonized, Dutch fruitwood, French giltwood (in the Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, and Empire styles), English giltwood, Robert Adam, Spanish Neoclassical, Biedermeier, Art Nouveau, and other types.