![SPANISH FORGER. Depature for the Crusades, a saintly Queen blessing a lance from a mailed Knight, Ladies and Knights in attendance, castle background, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, [c.1900]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2012-04/10/8429216-46-3.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "SPANISH FORGER. Depature for the Crusades, a saintly Queen blessing a lance from a mailed Knight, Ladies and Knights in attendance, castle background, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, [c.1900] Sold for £3,500 inc. premium")
23 May 2012
14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge
The Stuart B. Schimmel Forgery Collection; and other properties
Back to auction 20136
The Stuart B. Schimmel Forgery Collection; and other properties
Back to auction 20136
SPANISH FORGER
Depature for the Crusades, a saintly Queen blessing a lance from a mailed Knight, Ladies and Knights in attendance, castle background, illuminated manuscript leaf on vellum, decorative border, considerable flaking in the brownish sky not seriously affecting the image, framed and glazed (unexamined out of frame), pasted to back a phostostat of the recto, showing the fifteenth century choirbook on which the miniature was painted [Voelkle L143], c.220 x 160mm., [France, c.1900]
Sold for
£3,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A number of similar scenes, some betrothals, appear in the forger's oeuvre. In this case the pennant on the lance has a coat of arms (rouge, a cross potent or, between four of the same) which may allow an identification of the couple.
Provenance: Sothebys, 26 November 1985, lot 21; Maggs European Bulletin 13, July 1986, item 80.
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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