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LOT 0375
Ethiopian Painted Parchment of The Virgin's Miracle: Healing of the Paralysed Priest
CIRCA 1650 A.D.
12 3/8 x 8 5/8 in. (27 grams, 31.5 x 22 cm).
Rectangular leaf with hand-coloured composite scene: right, Mary in blue mantle and rich embroidered red garment holding the fallen priest by the hand and raising him; behind him a prone male figure in colourful robes (the priest represented for the second time); ecclesiastic architecture on the background; a manuscript folio with text in Ge'ez to the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, New York, circa 2016.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. similar manuscript of first Gonderine Period in Wallis, Budge, E.A.W., The miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and The life of Hannâ (Saint Anne), and The magical prayers of ʻAhĕta Mîkâêl, London, 1900, pls.X-XI (Folios 9a,13a) and p.27.
FootnotesThe image refers to the 'Miracle of the healing of the Priest' in which a priest, who had grown old in the service of the Virgin Mary, fell over in the church when bowing before her, and broke his back. The Virgin appeared and healed his broken bones.
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LOT 0375
Ethiopian Painted Parchment of The Virgin's Miracle: Healing of the Paralysed Priest
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
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Post Medieval Bronze Artefact Group
17th-19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: barrel-type key, domed button with loop, lock cover with studs to reverse. 43.6 grams total, 27-59 mm
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s. From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. -
Greek Gold Thread Needle Point with Mary and Jesus in Silver with Inscription to the Archbishop of Jerusalem
Dated 1698 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £520
Depicting Mary holding a lily flower with her right hand and supporting infant Jesus with her left arm; Jesus crowned by a crossed diadem and holding a gospel in his hand; background in gold thread, framed in a circular silver frame with dedicatory inscription to the reverse from a certain Alexander to the Jerusalem’s Archbishop Dositheus, reciting: + Τω ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΤΑΤω ΚΑΙ CΟΦωΤΑΤω ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΙΕΡΟCΟΛΥΜωΝ ΔΟCΙΘΕω ΤΙΜΗC ΕΝΕΚΕΝ – μηνι cεπτεμβριω 1698 – Αλεξανδρος – To His Beatitude and Enlighted Patriarch of Jerusalem Dositheus, as a sign of respect – September 1698 – Alexander; internal padding with floral decoration. 82 grams, 10 cm
Property of a London, UK, gentleman collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
The art of gold embroidery developed in Constantinople, with its own guild, and continued also after the end of the empire. Important artists like the legendary Despoineta, Mariora, Eusebia and Kokona, were famous in the 'painterly' rendering of religious subjects, not with the brush, but with the needle: red satin, and silver and gold wire created dresses, shadows, volumes with a sense of depth and sculptural quality. The artists conceived their works like a true prayer: a hope, based on human creativity. -
Engraving of the City of Cheb/Egra in the Czech Republic
Circa 1560 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Finely engraved large full-page view map of the city of Cheb/Egra, Czech Republic, showing St Nicolas' Cathedral and other notable landmarks, from Sebastian Munster's "Cosmographia", ca. 1560; Latin text to verso describing the town. 58 grams, 41.2 x 28.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Scottish private collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
