Lot 489

TWO RUSSIAN ICONS DEPICTING CHRIST WITH SAINTS
LATE 18TH/ EARLY 19TH CENTURY






Auction: 20 November 2019 from 10:00 GMT
£500
Description
the first with a central image of Christ with saints, enclosed by twelve further scenes from his life, with a repoussé silvered metal oklad with applied halos; the second with the Mandylion with two female and four male saints, with an embossed silvered metal oklad with applied gilt halos
Dimensions
First 38cm x 30.5cm; second 31cm x 26.5cm
Footnote
Provenance:
The Gerry Rafferty Collection of Russian Icons
Maria Andipa Icon Gallery, London
Private Scottish Collection





