Live auction - Lot 84
[Miniature]
Illuminated leaf of a printed Book of Hours, depicting the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Paris, ca. 1500
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
1 f. (16, x 11 cm), on vellum (sl. wavy).
Surrounded by a three-quarter architectural border. The scene takes place in a landscape in front of a Gothic mansion. Decorated with gold, red, blue, brown, green and pink colour, text alternating red and blue one-, two- and four-line initials enhanced in liquid gold. The text on verso is surrounded by a three-quarter historiated border.
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