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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $300
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1470
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The text is from the Book of Hours translated into Dutch, probably by Geert Grote, most Books of Hours were in Latin at that time, but Grote thought that even lay men sho...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1470 in or near Rouen. The decoration on the verso has flowers and leaves in bright colors and gold. There is o...
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours, use of Rome.
Wide panel border with designs of burnished gold ivy leaves and colored flowers on black hairline sprays. 14 lines of text in brown ink. Ruling in pink ink in fine gothic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1470
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours.
"An illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours. VERSO: Rubrics are most unusual as they are in blue. Eight 1-line initials in gold ink on brown or blue geometric grounds....
Place & Date: France ca.1475
Selling price: $400
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Calendar leaf for June 1475
Calendar leaf from a Book of Hours for the month of June Latin text in brown ink in letter batarde script with red ruling. There are several initials in gold leaf on a gr...
Place & Date: France, 1475
Selling price: $150
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Decorative leaf from a French book of hours, on vellum.
15 lines of text in a solid gothic hand, in darkbrown ink. RECTO: 3 capitals in burnished gold, infilled with red and blue, 7 linefillers in same. Full illuminated bord...
Place & Date: France ca. 1475
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
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Horae. [Book of Hours, Use of Angers]
>Each leaf with elaborate decorated floral side borders and finely illuminated, burnished gold initials with pen work in red and black on almost every leaf throughout....
Place & Date: France, ca. 1475
Selling price: $21750
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: Two wonderful initials ,A and O decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished go...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: 20 lines of text with one 5-lines initial in liquid gold on colored grounds. VERSO: 20 lines of text in brown ink.Parts of the text are crossed out.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Two pages of English text from a Incunabula.
Two pages of English text with capitals in red manuscript.
Place & Date: England, ca 1480
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "M" and "P" decorated initials with penwork in purple, red,...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
One large 3-lines and one 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. cen...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
A leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter and several 1-line initials.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 1...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "Q", decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: 1 two-line capital "D" Domine exaudi orationem.. ..in burnished gold on red and blue ground, 3 one-line initials in same and line-fillers.VERSO: 2 two-li...
Place & Date: Paris 1450-1480
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: 18 lines of text. One 4-line initial in burnished gold with infilling in white and colors, two 2-line initials in same. Surrounded by full illuminated borders, thr...
Place & Date: Flanders 1480
Selling price: $150
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Leaf from a manuscript book of hours, on vellum.
RECTO: Three 2-line illuminated initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds, marking new chapters.VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on colore...
Place & Date: France c.1480
Selling price: $100
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Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $800
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A manuscript leaf from a book of hours, on vellum.
20 lines of text in an ornate batarde hand in brown and red ink.RECTO: four 2-line illuminated initials in burnished gold with blue, pink and white infilling, three 1-lin...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Manuscript leaf from a missal,on vellum, written in black ink.
8 lines of text under 4-line staves of music in red.RECTO: two 2-line initials in red and blue, on smaller in red, text in a refined hand, page is numbered XXV (25) in th...
Place & Date: France ca. 1480
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial, six 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds a...
Place & Date: France, 1420-1480
Selling price: $295
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: Two 2-line capitals in burnished gold on blue or red colored grounds, and one line filler in same. On the right a panel-border of colored flowers and acanthus leav...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450-1480
Selling price: $120
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One 2-line in...
Place & Date: France, 1420-1480
Selling price: $260
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
RECTO: Nineteen 1-line capitals in burnished gold on blue or red colored grounds, and fourteen line fillers in same. On the right a panel-border of colored flowers and ac...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450-1480
Selling price: $185
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighbourhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet of flowe...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $450
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Portrait of an astronomer.
Incunabula text leaf with in lower right corner charming wood block print of an astronomer with a sphere, pair of dividers, etc. looking at the stars. On verso two 5-line...
Place & Date: c.1480
Selling price: $60
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful leaf from a Book of Hours, written in France around 1480, with a beautiful border of flowers and acanthus leaves on the recto and an elaborate border on the v...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $750
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A calendar leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighborhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet ...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $575
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Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
Scatter border of flowers, insects, and birds. Borders of very high quality, executed by an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school, probably the Master of the David Scenes in ...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1480
Selling price: $1950
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written at the end of the Middle Ages, around 1480, in Angers on the river Loire.This region was well known for the m...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $205
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Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A calendar leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighbourhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet...
Place & Date: Ferrara ca.1480
Selling price: $480
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Gradual.
Leaf from an Italian Gradual, a songbook used during the ceremony of the H.Mass, written in black ink, neums also ,music on 4-line red staves.RECTO: pagenumber 581, a lar...
Place & Date: Italy Florence ca. 1480
Selling price: $210
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written at the end of the Middle Ages, around 1480, in Angers on the river Loire.This region was well known for the m...
Place & Date: France ca.1480
Selling price: $100
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Leaf from a manuscript choirbook on vellum.
RECTO: A very nice large illuminated initial "K" for the Kyrie on The "Quadragesime-Sunday in Lent, in red and blue and yellow surrounds. It is page 587 of...
Place & Date: Florence, 1480
Selling price: $295
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book of hours
RECTO: 16 lines of tecxt, seven 1-line initials in burnished gold and colors and 2 linefillers in same. 3-sided borders, filled with multiple gold vineleaves and flowers ...
Place & Date: Flanders/ Northern France c.1480
Selling price: $375
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Breviary, manuscript leaf on vellum.
RECTO: Two large 2-line capitals in blue or blue, with contrasting penwork. 18 one-line capitals in same.VERSO: One 2-line capital in red with extensive contrasting penwo...
Place & Date: France 1440-1480
Selling price: $80
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial, six 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds a...
Place & Date: France 1440-1480
Selling price: $275
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Leaf of vellum, with miniature of St.Christophe.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: France, 1480
Selling price: $900
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
The Holy Trinity and Saint Michael.Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, late 15th century, probably Paris.This leaf has two miniatures: one of 43 x 45 mm and the othe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1480
Selling price: $1750
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
De sancta anna matre beate marie. Antiphona.Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, late 15th century, probably Paris.This leaf has a miniature of 45 x 45 mm with Saint ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1480
Selling price: $1650
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GRADUAL
Leaf from a Florentine gradual, 6 lines of text under 4-line staves of music, in a well performed bookhand. Recto: a large capital "E" (Et si coram hominib(u)s....
Place & Date: Italy, Florence ca. 1480
Selling price: $180
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Bible leaf Jeremiah 1480
Bible leaf from Jeremiah printed in 1480 by Ottaviano Scoto in Venice. Double columned text in Latin with three letters in red and blue. Ottaviano Scoto headed a family o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1480
Selling price: $55
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,Q, decorated with penwork in purple, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VE...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $450
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,D, decorated with penwork in purple, red, white and blue, in rich burnished go...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $500
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Manuscript leaf on fine vellum from a 15th.cent Breviary.
RECTO: Two 2-line capitals in red or blue, with fine penwork, extending into the vertical margins.RECTO: Four 1-line capital in red and blue, with fine penwork, extending...
Place & Date: France 1480
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial E decorated with penwork in purple, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.The ...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $550
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonal.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. The recto is decorated with two and the verso with one large initial executed in a very unusual red and blue pen wo...
Place & Date: ca.1480
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter. The left leaf describes the birth of St. John the Baptist, who was promised to his old-ag...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Miniature of Suffrages to the Saints.
A fantastic miniature (70 x 50 mm.) in an arched compartment showing the Suffrages to the Saints. Depiction of the (50) martyrs being burnt before the King's orders. The ...
Place & Date: France, Bretagne or Normandy, c. 1480
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2024
A double leaf from a breviary.
With two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula and eleven 1-line initials in red or blue. Nice clean leaves, with good margins, from ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: colorful panel border in the upper, lower and left margins of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black pen work and gold.VERSO: Same.
Place & Date: Western France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line initials in blue or in liquid gold with blue or red contrasting penwork.VERSO: One 2-line initial "D" in blue with penwork sprouting from D e...
Place & Date: Naples, ca. 1480
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "E" decorated with penwork in purple, red, white and blue, in rich bu...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2010