Art Nouveau Twins: A Favorite Tin Frieze Panel

Tin Frieze Panels

Elaborate Nouveau Style, Victorian Era, sheet metal frieze panels. Being 3 feet tall and 25 inches wide the panels were likely used in a series between floor baseboards and chair rail. The panels possibly depict the Greek primordial earth goddess Gaia, wife of Uranus and mother of the Titans or Terra Mater the Roman equivalent to Gaia.

See it on display now (one of our most favorite pieces) in our main gallery.