Lot 416

EASTERN ORTHODOX ICON AND CARVED FRAME, THE MOTHER OF GOD OF AKHTYRSK
17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 27 January 2016 at 10:00 GMT
£875
Description
the arched panel painted with a waist length portrait of the saint in three quarter profile praying beside a crucifix set on the summit of Golgotha, against a gilt ground and beneath a smaller panel depicting Christ, in a frame deeply carved with C scrolls, flower heads, and foliate scrolls with traces of white and polychrome decoration
Dimensions
48cm high, 39cm wide
