Antique Fra Angelico icon style paintings in Florentine neo gothic gilded carved antique frames

Hello we're Malta and we're going to have a chat about these beautiful little framed pieces ablets featuring paintings by Fra Angelico So in Italy around the 1860s to 1880s they were producing They produced these items in large quantities for tourists both the affluent and the ordinary and they were created not only for believers but also for souvenir seekers So the English came the Spanish e Italians themselves the French obviously all flocked to Florence and Rome and these are the sort of things they used to pack away and take back home So these pictures are displaying Fra Angelico's angels which were likely originally murals or church paintings and the intriguing aspect of some of them is that they depict the angels holding musical instruments and this is angel holding a trumpet or what they used to call a horn back in the day Without the buttons on there are angels with musical instruments and then there are angels without them—perhaps archangels I suppose—and then you have Madonna with the baby Jesus—that's the largest one There are different sizes I mean among the others e ones we have here come in three sizes and I imagine in Florence they would have had workshops producing these items stringing them together and by chance one of them The pair we have bears a Florentine label and the other part of the set also has a matching label making them intriguing items that are now becoming quite expensive They are exceptionally well-crafted and the way they create the image is truly remarkable on a piece of wood a wooden lozenge or a wooden tablet and then they receive a neo-Gothic frame and they pin it together inside and since these frames are neo-Gothic they are reproductions of Gothic style so whe This was made around 1880 and is a reproduction of a post-medieval neo-Gothic architectural design So they're wonderful things—extremely elaborate and delicate—but unfortunately they ge They break very easily with pieces chipping off and getting lost one of the pairs we have today was delivered from England—though they're not from England they're not English they're Italian but these are from England and have been sent over and all of them have come from England and the pair we delivered today—those are the small ones—I'll take care of getting rid of them One of the pairs is missing indicating a shortage This pair which arrived a month ago is exactly the same size as the pair that came today from a different part of England And you can see they were setting these up for the visitors to enjoy The missing parts are the columns—I have one column and I have three sorry four four are missing overall so I need to find three more of those which I won't be able to do and I No one will agree to make it—it’s too expensive and it’s just a carved wooden piece on a lathe You need to place it on a lathe and carefully guide the chisel at a consistent speed o create this barley twist effect then on the pine they need to sand it down ey have to mix gesso with rabbit glue let it dry apply more and so on dry for 10 minutes say 10 times then they must add the glue paint bowl colored clay and glue Then they apply the real gold leaf—not gold paint—because it's too shiny to be anything else paint and that's something I can't easily find so I might consider relocating Place that pillar into that space over there so they at least appear symmetrical and perhaps we could even find a golden dome or a golden nipple just to give it a bit more flair better when the corners are missing and this will serve as a spare for next time So these are the flangellicos I think are seriously underpriced—they're on multiple sales We'll sell them individually in pairs or in groups of three—whatever anyone wants it doesn' t matter I think they're spectacular truly distinctive nothing like anything else out there Otherwise they're truly unique and the real question is whether they'll increase in value or not I believe they're going to rise significantly in value Thank you so much for taking a look