Catalogue of colonial mirror frames.
A trade catalogue issued in 1907 by Foster Brothers of Boston, Massachusetts, presenting colonial-style mirror frames for buyers of period reproductions and decorative fittings. The pictures are plain line engravings of rectangular frames with carved crests, urns, swags, and scrolled pediments, each shown empty so the frame profile reads clearly. A designer could draw on their classical motifs, from oval cartouches and bellflower mouldings to the broken-scroll Chippendale top with an eagle, for historical borders and ornament.
