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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A manuscript leaf in a very good condition from a Book of Hours, written in Paris around 1520. The text is in a very regular hand in classic script in brown/black with th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three linefillers in sa...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three linefillers in same.VE...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $230
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Three 2-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: One 2-lines capital and seven 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Nine 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials very finely executed. Th...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: One 2-line capital and eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Nine 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials v...
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five linefillers in same.VERSO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one linefill...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two linefillers in same.VERSO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two linefillers ...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France c. 1520
Selling price: $210
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and three line-fillers in same.VERSO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one line-fil...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $190
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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
Manuscript leaf, in a Bâtarde bookhand from a book of hours. One line filler in blue and white on liquid gold. The vellum is of an excellent type.VERSO : Blank.
Place & Date: Flanders c. 1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
VERSO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.RECTO: Eight 1-line capitals in blue and white on liquid gold ground.Initials very finely executed. T...
Place & Date: Flanders, c. 1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.VERSO: One 2-line initials and two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored g...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Nine 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One 2-line initials and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two line-fillers i...
Place & Date: France 1500-1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO and RECTO:: On each side one 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds, very good condition.
Place & Date: France, c.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One line-fillers in same.
Place & Date: France, 1500 - 1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
2 sheets. RECTO: Two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: One 2-line initials and two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.Page 2 : RECTO...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.VERSO: One 2-line initial and five 1-line initials, one line-filler in same.
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, c.1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line illuminated initial showing a bee in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and three line-fillers in same.VERSO: six 1-line initials in l...
Place & Date: France, c.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a book of hours.
Manuscript leaf, in a Bâtarde bookhand from a book of hours. The vellum is of an excellent type.
Place & Date: Flanders, c. 1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.VERSO: Eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored ground...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 2-lines and two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.RECTO: Two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds an...
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A manuscript leaf in a very good condition from a Book of Hours, written in Paris around 1520. The text is in a very regular hand in classic script in brown/black with th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A manuscript leaf in a very good condition from a Book of Hours, written in Paris around 1520. The text is in a very regular hand in classic script in brown/black with th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2021
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[Illuminated MS leaf from a medieval devotional book of hours].
An attractive fully colored page from a devotional book of hours, published in France during the 16th century. The main page is beautifully presented with a line in Latin...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: two 2-line illuminated initial in liquid gold on colored ground, five 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on color...
Place & Date: France, c.1530
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six linefillers in same....
Place & Date: France 1520-1540
Selling price: $120
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines initial decorated with flower...
Place & Date: France 1520-1540
Selling price: $110
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Miniature on vellum from a Belgium manuscript Book of Hours.
The Presentation in the Temple.Mary presents her baby to the priest and Joseph holds a basket with two sacrificial doves as an offering for poor people. Unfortunately the...
Place & Date: Belgium, ca.1540
Selling price: $1350
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: Eight 1-line initials and four line-fillers in same.RECTO: One 2-lines initial and seven 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds, four line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, 1540
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
The calender-leaf of the month of November.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of November. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground, a little bit shaved) for Kalendarium stating that November has 30 days. All days are fill...
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
The calender-leaf of the month of August.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of August. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground) for Kalendarium telling that August has 31 days. All days are filled in with feasts for Sai...
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
The calender-leaf of the month of June.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of June. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground) for Kalendarium telling that June has 30 days. All days are filled in with feasts for Saints....
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Height 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in same.VERSO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines ...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1540
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $120
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Justification: 102x70mm. RECTO: One 2-line initial and 1-line initial, both in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five lines of text and two line-fillers in liquid gol...
Place & Date: France, c.1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
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 in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Same panel bor...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
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 and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grou...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, 1540-1560
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $200
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $165
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $170
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $150
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23 Leaves on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
Very Rare Manuscript: 23 vellum leaves, the beginning of a Book of Hours!The leaves 1, 2 and 3 are blank, but for a liquid gold panel around each page. Leaf 4 has the tex...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $1300
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $190
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scriber used dark Guido ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1570
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013
Two large format very rare psalter or graduale leaves on heavy vellum (15/16th century).
Both have colored margin decorations in the form of gesticulating or singing monks/saints, both with texts, one from Lucas 22/15, and one with musical notation of a psalm...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1500/1580
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a Spanish manuscript.
Spanish manuscript on vellum, Granada, 1628.The red capital D on a gold background is very nice: it has a face on the right side!
Place & Date: Granada 1628
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Spanish inquisition document, manuscript on vellum.
A large Spanish inquisition document on proceedings against heresy, by the Holy Office. Written on vellum in dark brown ink. Signed by many important persons.VERSO: Dated...
Place & Date: Spain, 15th July 1637
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2012
Italian Leaf.
This is a handwritten page from the 1300 done in Italy. The marginal drawing of fish (dolphins?) done in the 1600's. It is written in a Gothic hand on fine Italian vellum...
Place & Date: Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a Book of Hours.
Leaf from a Book of Hours manuscript on vellum Italy, 14th Century.Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650.Written in Latin with marginal decoration and a letter combination ...
Place & Date: Italy 1200s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2009
Poems of Hafiz.
Very scarce original manuscript leaf from a CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT OF THE DIVAN OF HAFIZ - the collected poems of Muhammed Shamsuddin Hafiz (died ca. 1388 A.D.) - one of...
Place & Date: Persia, ca. 1650
Selling price: $455
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with handwritten text. Several initials hand-painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of text on both sides. Probably from a Missal or Antiphona...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with hand written text. Several initials hand painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of Latin text on both sides. Probably from a book written...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2016
Italian manuscript leaf on vellum.
This is an handwritten page from the 1300 done in Italy. The marginal drawing of grapes done in the 1600's. It is written in a Gothic hand on fine Italian vellum.
Place & Date: Italy 1300s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript.
Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript on heavy shiny paper.32 lines of text in black ink, partly in red ink, in a Bolorgir hand. RECTO: Large hea...
Place & Date: Armenia, c.1750 - 1780
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $77
Sold in 2022
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Koran Page
Single leaf from a Koran manuscript on paper in gold leaf, tempera and ink. Black text in Arabic with interlinear red text in Persian. The script is Nasta?liq. Beautiful ...
Place & Date: India, circa 1790
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2008
Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Place & Date: Unknown, circa 1850
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Koran Page
A page from a hand written Koran circa 1800's text surrounded by gold leaf box and marginal decorative drawing in upper corner.
Place & Date: Unknown circa 1850
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Five Indo / Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Five Indo/Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Each miniature a...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1850
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016