Live auction - Lot 42
[Miniature - Neo-Gothic]
The Nativity.
Hammer price: €
200
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
[France, 19th c.]
1 f., 18,5 x 13,4 cm, vellum, 2 ll. written in a Neo-Gothic script.
Very fine large illumination with a full decorated border made of acanthus heightened with liquid gold. The Virgin is holding the Child facing an angel in front of a stable with Joseph and two other angels behind them, in a rural landscape with a castle in background. With a two-lines initial in burnished gold on blue and red ground with white infills.
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