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Rare! Antique Russian Icon 19th Century Four Part Miniature Virgin Mary of Kazan
$ 417.38
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Description
ANTIQUECHRISTIAN
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX FOUR-PART ICON.
The first half of the 19th Century.
Dimensions:
height is 10 5/8 inches,
width is 9 inches [27 cm x 22.5 cm];
thickness of the panel 9/8 inch [2 cm]
Material:
Wood panel with a kovcheg (cut-back central portion), levkas (gesso).
The icon painted in fine miniature of egg tempera technique against a gilt-silver ground.
The importance of this icon is in its rarity of themes depicted here:
At upper left - one of the most venerable icon of All-Russia - Kazan Mother of God;
at right are Selected Saints: Simon, Guriy and Aviv;
At register: left - The Seven Youth of Ephesus;
right: The All-seeing Eye of God.
Condition:
Good and stable state of preservation typical for the antique 19th Century Russian Icon. Two slats on verso are missing.
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