A pair of large panels of the Festivals and Saints from an iconostasis, Asia Minor or Palestine, circa 1800

Auction Closed

November 26, 05:37 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

each panel consisting of seven registers, three of which depict three Festivals each (9 in total) and four of which depict four Saints each (16 in total), painted predominantly in blue and cinnabar on a burnished gilt ground, with inscriptions painted in red in Greek, both unsigned

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each panel 83.5 by 32.2cm; 32 7/8 by 12 5/8 in.

Private Collection, South America

Sotheby's London, 15 December 1994, lot 476

The Loverdos Collection of Icons

For similar icons, see the catalogue Lumières de l’Orient Chrétien, Icônes de la collection Abou Adal, Beirut, 1997.

We are grateful to Ivan Samarine for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.