Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

MASTERS AND MASTERPIECES: memling 265 Fig. 135. Profiles of the frame elements. Hatched: modern additions. 1. Beaded cavetto frame. Larger lower rail, with inclined sill; the frames of the wings are similar, but narrower ( Triptych of the Last Judgement , Gdansk). 2. Beaded cavetto frame. Bottom rail in form of an inclined sill ( Nativity , Cologne). 3. Cavetto frame ( Portrait of Gilles Joye , Williamstown). 4. Frames with listels (except the bottom rails of the wings) with beaded cavetto mouldings. The frames of the wings are narrower, and profiled on the outside with inclined sills ( St John Altarpiece , Bruges). 5. Cavetto frames with listel. Inclined sill on the bottom rail. Frames of the wings: similar, but narrower ( Jan Floreins Triptych , Bruges). 6. Same profiles as in the previous frame ( Reins Triptych , Bruges). 7. Frame with listel and ogee moulding. Inclined sill on the lower rail ( The Sybil Sambetha , Bruges). 8. Frame with listel and ogee moulding. Inclined sill on the lower rail ( Christ Blessing , Boston). 9. Frame with listel and beaded cavetto moulding. Inclined sill on the bottom rail. Frames of the wings similar, but narrower ( Moreel Triptych , Bruges). 10. Frames with beaded cavetto moulding. Inclined sill on the bottom rail. The outside of the frame of Maarten is bevelled ( Maarten van Nieuwenhove Diptych , Bruges). 11. Frame with listel and beaded cavetto moulding. Inclined sill on the lower rail ( Christ at the Column , Barcelona). 12. Frame with ogee moulding. With broken inclined sill on the bottom rail. Bevelled profile at the back ( Portrait of Jacob Obrecht , Forth Worth).