within a large initial, cutting from an illuminated choirbook on parchment [Spain, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century] Large illuminated initial ‘P’ on a square cutting, formed of pierced and interlacing bands of gold shaded in red and blue, with scrolling ends and an architectural foot, softly coloured sprays of fruit and acanthus leaves, those within the initial supporting a chubby naked putto with blond hair who holds the keys of St. Peter in his right hand, reverse with remains of two lines of monumental Iberian bookhand with music on a 4-line red stave (rastum 49mm.), small scuffs and crackalure to gold in places, else fine condition, 182 by 175mm. An early twentieth-century pencil note on the reverse of this cutting notes its provenance as from an “album Marley”, indicating that it was once in the collection of Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) of Belvedere, Westmeath, Ireland, who lent 45 of his “Illuminations from MSS. Principally of the Italian and French Schools” for an exhibition in the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1886, and subsequently left many of them to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
within a large initial, cutting from an illuminated choirbook on parchment [Spain, late sixteenth or early seventeenth century] Large illuminated initial ‘P’ on a square cutting, formed of pierced and interlacing bands of gold shaded in red and blue, with scrolling ends and an architectural foot, softly coloured sprays of fruit and acanthus leaves, those within the initial supporting a chubby naked putto with blond hair who holds the keys of St. Peter in his right hand, reverse with remains of two lines of monumental Iberian bookhand with music on a 4-line red stave (rastum 49mm.), small scuffs and crackalure to gold in places, else fine condition, 182 by 175mm. An early twentieth-century pencil note on the reverse of this cutting notes its provenance as from an “album Marley”, indicating that it was once in the collection of Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912) of Belvedere, Westmeath, Ireland, who lent 45 of his “Illuminations from MSS. Principally of the Italian and French Schools” for an exhibition in the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1886, and subsequently left many of them to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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