each within a rectangular rosewood frame, one with nine specimen marbles in the form of roundels, the other with six, both within a gessoed giltwood foliate border, on a red velvet ground (2)

The smaller framed group with a loss and then seperations at each corner of the rosewood frame. The interior with two holes possibly originally to support further specimens. The scrolled gesso border with cracks. The smaller framed group with small detached sections of scrolled border. The velvet ground in each is discoloured.
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