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New Zealand Tablet, 4 July 1918, Page 43

Perhaps the most valuable frame ever made for a picture is that which encloses "The Virgin and the Child" in the Cathedral of Milan. It is of massive hammered gold, with an inner moulding of lapis lazuli. The corners have hearts designed in large pearls, and precious stones are inlaid around it. Its estimated value is .£25,000. One of the pictures in the Vatican is enclosed in a frame studded with jewels, so that its value nearly equals that of the painting' Many Continental churches have pictures with similar frames of great value.