Oct 20, 2022 10:00 EST
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings / English & Continental Silver, V
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Russian Silver Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Yakov Vitaliev, Moscow, 1802
Rectangular, the saint depicted half-length, raising his right hand in a blessing and holding the Gospels in his left hand, his vestments repoussé and chased, with an applied halo with pierced corona, flanked by Christ and the Mother of God, all within a foliate diaperwork border. Height 11 3/4 inches (30 cm), width 9 1/2 inches (24 cm).
Russian Silver Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker
Yakov Vitaliev, Moscow, 1802
Rectangular, the saint depicted half-length, raising his right hand in a blessing and holding the Gospels in his left hand, his vestments repoussé and chased, with an applied halo with pierced corona, flanked by Christ and the Mother of God, all within a foliate diaperwork border. Height 11 3/4 inches (30 cm), width 9 1/2 inches (24 cm).
Repair to crown of halo; puncture to halo (lower right); halo not firmly attached; edges of riza bent and cracked in areas.
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Auction: Old Master & 19th Century Paintings & Drawings / English & Continental Silver, V, Oct 20, 2022
