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LOT 1747
Medieval Stained Glass Panel with Head of a Boy
FRANCE, EARLY 16TH CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (106 grams, 12.5 cm).
Irregular, with lead came frame and suspension loop; amber-coloured glass with sepia portrait of a fair-haired youth. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Galerie de Chartres, 2009.
Ex central London gallery.
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