The PICTURES comprise choice Examples of the Italian School,
commencing with the Works of some of the earliest Masters; also of the
Spanish, German, Flemish, French, and English Schools.
The other WORKS OF ART include three very interesting early Paces, of
Niello Work; Tryptics, of Ivory and Bone; a few Bronzes; Majolica
Plates; Illuminated Miniatures; a Crucifix, in Boxwood, etc.
WHICH
Will be Sold by Auction, by
MESSRS. CHRISTIE & MANSON,
AT THEIR GREAT ROOM,
8 KING STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE,
On THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1855,
AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY.
May be viewed Three days preceding, and Catalogues had, at Messrs.
CHRISTIE and MANSON'S Offices, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.
NOTE: The figures in brackets are the prices at which the works they
refer to were bought in.
CATALOGUE
ON THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1855
AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY
Early Florentine 1 The Virgin, suckling the Infant £1 5s.
Fra Angelico da Fiesole 2 The Madonna, and St. John £6 6s.
Fra Angelico da Fiesole 3 The Resurrection, two soldiers
sleeping beneath--very
small. Pronounced by Dr.
Waagen "a genuine picture." £44 2s.
Fra Angelico da Fiesole 4 The Virgin enthroned, with two saints at
her side. A very interesting small work.
From the Gerini Gallery; on which
Dr. Waagen says, "In this little picture
all that earnestness and spirituality
peculiar to that master is expressed"
£56 14s.
Berna di Siena 5 The Stoning of St. Stephen--painted on
gold ground £2 10s.
Giottino 6 The Crucifixion, on gold ground--small,
with pointed top £5 10s.
Giottino 7 The Crucifixion, with the Maries and the
centurion and soldiers beneath--on gold
ground, with pointed top £5 15s.
Giottino 8 The Crucifixion, with the Virgin and St.
John; the Magdalen kneeling at the
foot of the cross--small square. £4 4s.
Taddeo Gaddi 9 The Epiphany, and Visitation--parts of a
predella £19 8s. 6d.
Gentile da Fabriano 10 The Holy Family, seated before a building,
the Magi in adoration, in the
singular landscape background £21
School of Memmi 11 The Virgin and Child--a fragment £3 10s.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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