Lot 166
  • 166

A RUSSIAN ICON OF CHRIST PANTOCRATOR AND A RUSSIAN ICON OF THE VLADIMIR MOTHER OF GOD, |

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • tempera, oil, silver, enamel, velvet
  • the larger 8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in., 22.5 x 17.5 cm
the first with silver oklad with enameled applied plaques and halo, struck with Cyrillic initials IF, probably for Ivan Futikin, Moscow, circa 1895; the second struck with obscured maker's marks, possibly Dmitrii Orlov, Moscow, 1872, both 84 standard

Provenance

Vladimir Nikolaevich [Trotskii-]Seniutovitch (1877-1957)
Thence by descent

Condition

both with areas of loss and repair
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