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Lot 25*

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - THE SPANISH FORGER
Extremely large miniature depicting various stages of wine-production and consumption, [France, c.1900]

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT - THE SPANISH FORGER

Extremely large miniature depicting various stages of wine-production and consumption, illuminated manuscript on vellum, on recto of a leaf from a fourteenth­ century Italian Antiphonal, main image 300 x 210mm. within a blue-striped border, surrounded on all 4 sides by a broad border of scrolling acanthus, sprays of naturalistic flowers, urns and gold disks, leaf wrinkled, slight rubbing particularly to gilt sky [Voelkle L50], overall 465 x 350mm., [France, c.1900]

Footnotes

An uncommonly large Spanish Forgery, taking as its source the fresco of The Drunkenness of Noah by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Campo Santo at Pisa - known to the Forger through the chromolithograph published by Paul Mantz (Les chefs ­d'oeuvre de la peinture italienne, 1870, opp. p.107).

Provenance: Said to have been found with with six other leaves by the Spanish Forger in an attic in the Neuilly district of Paris (Voelkle nos L43, ­L44, L47, ­L49, L51, L52); Jean ­François Vilain, New York; bought 1978; Christie's, 11 December 2002, lot 16.

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