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A Roundly Acclaimed Book of Hours 

Result EUR177,246
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 15 November 2017 - 14:15 (CET) - Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Combining the furniture of a private mansion and two European collections, the sale fulfilled its promises by totalling €1,200,547, while producing a few surprises. For a start, to deal with the slight downside straightaway, the kneehole desk in engraved brass and red tortoiseshell marquetry attributed to Bernard I Van...
Follower of the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, late 15th century, manuscript... A Roundly Acclaimed Book of Hours 
Follower of the Master of the Burgundian Prelates, late 15th century, manuscript Book of Hours with 90 pages on vellum, embellished with fifty miniatures, two full-page (one reproduced here: "Death and the Horsemen at the Foot of a Cross") in an in-8o volume.
Result: €177,246
Combining the furniture of a private mansion and two European collections, the sale fulfilled its promises by totalling €1,200,547, while producing a few surprises. For a start, to deal with the slight downside straightaway, the kneehole desk in…
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Wednesday 15 November 2017 - 14:15 (CET) - Live
Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris
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