A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The central roundels seen on

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A Wonderful Mid 18thC Italian Painted Pine Chapel Dedication Plaque for the Grassi Family, Dated to 1755 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The central roundels seen onOrigin: Italian, Probably Rome Period: Settecento Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1755 Height: 24 Width: 30 Depth: 1. 5 (all in frame) Dating from the Settecento period the mid eighteenth century painted softwood chapel dedication panel in its original pine and gesso frame with hand painted script on a series of five boards headed DOM for Deo Optimo Maximo over a weighty Latin text for the Grassi family surviving from the middle of eighteenth century