Bidspirit auction | A Large Italian Fontanini Depose

A Large Italian Fontanini Depose Baroque Style Wall Plaque - A large mid-20th century decorative wall plaque manufactured by Fontanini in Italy. The piece features a central high-relief resin figurine of an 18th-century courtier, hand-painted and depicted sniffing a rose. The figure is dressed in a salmon-pink frock coat over an embroidered waistcoat and blue-grey breeches. The relief is mounted upon a ground of yellow crushed velvet, set within an ornate, pierce-carved style gilt frame with heavy scrollwork and foliate flourishes. A small gilded floral sprig is mounted above the figure. The reverse is finished with a hardboard backing and bears a central paper label marked Art. 179 and Modello Depositato. The frame reverse is stamped MADE IN ITALY and includes a small, illegible foil label at the bottom centre. A handwritten mark 8E is present at the top. Height: 53 cm Width: 53 cm.