KERMABON, ADELIE-MARIE - Livre d'Heures manuscrit enluminé du 19e siècle - 1890

Sumptuous late 19th century Book of Hours manuscript created by female porcelain artist Adelie-Marie Kermabon for the French publishing firm Maison Bouasse-Lebel. Kermabon, born in Saint-Malo, was a student of the more famous porcelain artist Delphine de Cool-Fortin (1830-1921), whose works were exhibited at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Kermabon had a number of her own works exhibited at French art exhibitions during the 1870s and 1880s, and extant records of those catalogs show that she worked mostly on porcelain. The manuscript offered here is exquisite. Every page is elaborately decorated with numerous scenes, personages, fantastic beasts, and architectural backgrounds. The initials J. O. are stamped into the leather box which holds the manuscript. The manuscript is bound in elaborately decorated calf. Although this genre of manuscript was not uncommon in 19th century France, this creation is a one of a kind. 18.5 x 12.5cm. 76pp., [iv].