The frame that contains the two prints is very particular and unusual; it was created in recent times by an old master cabinetmaker who has his workshop in the "coolest" neighborhood of Florence: the master inserted four polished mirrors on the sides of the flat part of the frame, tilting them towards the outside, while he painted the external part and the internal thread are gold in order to create a very bright, elegant and sophisticated optical effect overall. The prints are enclosed in the frame by a refined cream-colored passepartout with golden edges. The prints are paper works and not book pages. They were printed in London between 1900 and 1905 with the "chromolithography" technique from the Greek crhromo (colour), lithos (stone) and graphia (drawing), a technique from 1837 obtained by superimposing images of different colors engraved on different stones, a for each color; with this process it was possible to imitate the colors of tempera paintings, obtaining very bright shades and tones. The prints depict two beautiful and important flowers, the one on the left is a red Peony (Paeonia officialis) and the one on the right is a scarlet Avens (Avens Rosaceae Geum coccineum).
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SILVER Seller in Prato, Italy
