Collection of miniatures from illuminated manuscripts, on vellum 5 miniatures on cuttings, (a) The Raising of Lazarus, 102mm. by 70mm., with the figures of Christ surrounded by followers, one hand raised in blessing, as Lazarus rises from his coffin helped by an assistant, all before a cross, all on rich brown background and picked out similar to grisaille work through strokes of liquid gold and other shades of brown, 8 lines in elaborate calligraphic script from the Office of Dead on verso, some slight damage to Lazarus, figure behind him and Christ's arm, else good condition, northern France (possibly Rouen) early sixteenth century; and three nineteenth-century miniatures in the Flemish style: (b) King David kneeling in prayer, his crown and harp before him, as God appears in the sky above, all before a rich and detailed medieval castle, 183mm. by 126mm., striking pink border with diagonal hatching and adorned with large medieval jewels in a trompe d'oeil style, some flaking of small areas; (c) The Entombment of Christ, 187mm. by 137mm., with Joseph of Arimathea supporting Christ's shoulders before followers in a rocky landscape with Jerusalem in the background, borders of pale egg-shell blue with gold flecks containing scenes of a bird, a snail, a medieval knight in armour with a sword raised excellent condition and Christ attacking devils who guard the Gates of Hell (the faces of the damned peering out from the doorway); (d) Christ in the mystical wine-press, standing on a column as his stigmata bleed into a fountain below, surrounded in the foreground by throngs of medieval supplicants who kneel, and in the background by hordes of angels picked out in liquid gold in the blue sky, border of green with foliage, fruit and a butterfly; (e) The Adoration of the Magi, 127mm. by 127mm., on a piece of vellum 240mm. by 195mm., within an initial 'C' composed of fleshy coloured acanthus leaves and on a burnished gold ground, with a column of random letters in same or in burnished gold on coloured grounds (one enclosing a flower); all in excellent condition
Collection of miniatures from illuminated manuscripts, on vellum 5 miniatures on cuttings, (a) The Raising of Lazarus, 102mm. by 70mm., with the figures of Christ surrounded by followers, one hand raised in blessing, as Lazarus rises from his coffin helped by an assistant, all before a cross, all on rich brown background and picked out similar to grisaille work through strokes of liquid gold and other shades of brown, 8 lines in elaborate calligraphic script from the Office of Dead on verso, some slight damage to Lazarus, figure behind him and Christ's arm, else good condition, northern France (possibly Rouen) early sixteenth century; and three nineteenth-century miniatures in the Flemish style: (b) King David kneeling in prayer, his crown and harp before him, as God appears in the sky above, all before a rich and detailed medieval castle, 183mm. by 126mm., striking pink border with diagonal hatching and adorned with large medieval jewels in a trompe d'oeil style, some flaking of small areas; (c) The Entombment of Christ, 187mm. by 137mm., with Joseph of Arimathea supporting Christ's shoulders before followers in a rocky landscape with Jerusalem in the background, borders of pale egg-shell blue with gold flecks containing scenes of a bird, a snail, a medieval knight in armour with a sword raised excellent condition and Christ attacking devils who guard the Gates of Hell (the faces of the damned peering out from the doorway); (d) Christ in the mystical wine-press, standing on a column as his stigmata bleed into a fountain below, surrounded in the foreground by throngs of medieval supplicants who kneel, and in the background by hordes of angels picked out in liquid gold in the blue sky, border of green with foliage, fruit and a butterfly; (e) The Adoration of the Magi, 127mm. by 127mm., on a piece of vellum 240mm. by 195mm., within an initial 'C' composed of fleshy coloured acanthus leaves and on a burnished gold ground, with a column of random letters in same or in burnished gold on coloured grounds (one enclosing a flower); all in excellent condition
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