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NATIVITY, miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF HOURS ON VELLUM
[Paris, by a Follower of the Master of the Harvard Hannibal, c.1420]
170 x 123mm. The Virgin lying on a bed with goldstriped cover, observing the swaddled Child in a wooden crib. In front of her, a young female saint rocking the crib, at back Joseph gesturing, an ox and an ass behind the wattled fence. Painted in colours and gold within an arched compartment ( 83x57mm ) with a broad three-sided baguette border and a border of flowers and golden ivy leaves on hairline stems, (slight smudge below the face of the Virgin). Framed and glazed
[Paris, by a Follower of the Master of the Harvard Hannibal, c.1420]
170 x 123mm. The Virgin lying on a bed with goldstriped cover, observing the swaddled Child in a wooden crib. In front of her, a young female saint rocking the crib, at back Joseph gesturing, an ox and an ass behind the wattled fence. Painted in colours and gold within an arched compartment ( 83x57mm ) with a broad three-sided baguette border and a border of flowers and golden ivy leaves on hairline stems, (slight smudge below the face of the Virgin). Framed and glazed