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LOT 0390
Renaissance Stained Glass Roundel with a Female Martyr Saint
ITALY, TUSCANY, FLORENCE, CIRCA 1510-1520 A.D.
11 5/8 in. (613 grams, 29.5 cm wide).
With lead came surround, painted glass panel depicting a nimbate female holding a feather or quill in a landscape; probably St. Lucy; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Nesbits Auction, Portsmouth, 1 August 2018, no.58.
Private collection, Suffolk, UK.
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LOT 0390
Renaissance Stained Glass Roundel with a Female Martyr Saint
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
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Museum Reproduction Coin Group
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Mixed group comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types. 274 grams total, 20-36 mm.
Very fine-extremely fine.
From an old UK collection. From the collection of an London antiquarian. -
Ethiopian Manuscript Page with Mary Rescuing the Two Scribes from Devils
17th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Leaf from a vellum manuscript with hand-coloured image: Mary, right, nimbate in red floor-length robe and blue mantle holding aloft a soul in yellow kilt, its neck seized by two crouching winged dark-skinned demons; a third demon, left, with protruding tongue seizing the upper body of another soul; foreground: two male figures seated on low stools, each with vellum page in one hand and quill in the other; panels of red Coptic text above the scribes, beside their souls; the right edge damaged, left edge folded and pierced for binding. 40 grams, 29.5 x 26 cm
Collection of David Buxton (1913-2003), author of 'Travels in Ethiopia', 1949.
The image is related to the tale of Virgin Mary and the two brothers who were scribes. In this tale, Mary rescues the souls of the scribes who had committed sins whilst they were engaged in writing a copy of the Book of the Miracles of the Virgin Mary. -
Renaissance Stained Glass Panel with Head of Virgin
Southern Low Countries, 16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Fragment with female head in three-quarter view with headrail, nimbus and eyes lowered. 98 grams, 10.5 cm
with Galerie de Chartres, 8 March 2009, no.90 (Part). Ex central London gallery.
