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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
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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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