Paperolle, christ to the Holy Crown

Beautiful paperolle representing in the center the christ with the holy crown, with its original frame.
Louis XIV period

Very nice frame made of burr wood and brass

Paperolles are a decoration technique using narrow strips or tissues of paper, rolled up on itself and fixed on a support or in a frame, creating a three-dimensional subject.

It was very fashionable during the Renaissance, especially in religious congregations, who wanted to reproduce the effect of the gold and silver filigrees of the goldsmiths.

The genre was democratized in the eighteenth century