Throughtout this antique French architectural panel is French Renaissance style ornamentation.  Overdoors were most often found in boiseries or wooden paneled rooms, where ornamentation was fairly consistent throughout.  Overdoors gave importance to doorways and also visual height. 

Today, overdoors are used as a piece of artwork hung on a wall over a piece of furnture; retrofitted into a headboard for a bed; mounted on stand and placed upon a table; or used anywhere a wonderfully decorated piece of architecture could be highlighted. 

This antique French Renaissance Style overdoor has motifs of pilasters bearing winged cherubs’ faces with foliate bodies, a central cartouche surrounded by scrolling acanthus leaves,banding, c-scrolls and trailing vines and more.

Condition: Very good antique condition with only a few rubs to the wood.