MUSIC, FROM KING RENE'S HONEYMOON, CIRCA 1880

The design is an adaptation of Gabriel Dante Rossetti's painted decoration on J. P. Seddon's King René's Honeymoon Cabinet, now displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, which was displayed at the International Exhibtion of 1862. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. also executed a series of four windows depicting scenes from the life of King René. The Medieval King of Anjou was a notable patron of the arts, who appears in Sir Walter Scott's novel Anne of Geierstein, Edinburgh, 1829,

Christie's wishes to thank Peter Cormack M.B.E., F.S.A. of the American Friends of the Victoria & Albert Museum Visiting Fellow, Research Department, for his assistance cataloguing this lot.