A silver-gilt and pearl-set icon of the Smolenskaya Mother of God, Moscow, circa 1780

Property of an Important European Collection

A silver-gilt and pearl-set icon of the Smolenskaya Mother of God

Moscow

circa 1780

the Virgin's maphorion and the Christ Child's robes picked out in seed pearls and pastes, the border repoussé and chased with rocaille flowers and scrolls; struck on the lower edge with unrecorded maker's initials CM and ASP (Cyrillic) and the assay master's mark AB, probably for Alexei Vihlyaev

32.1 by 27.5cm, 12 1/2 by 10 3/4 in.

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