AN ICON OF ST NICHOLAS, NOVGOROD OR VOLOGDA, 16TH CENTURY, RENEWED IN THE 19TH CENTURY

Lot 229
09.06.2021 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 229 | AN ICON OF ST NICHOLAS, NOVGOROD OR VOLOGDA, 16TH CENTURY, RENEWED IN THE 19TH CENTURY
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£ 3 000 – 5 000
AN ICON OF ST NICHOLAS, NOVGOROD OR VOLOGDA, 16TH CENTURY, RENEWED IN THE 19TH CENTURY



The saint shown bust length holding an open Gospel in his left hand while making a blessing with his right, painted against a toffee coloured ground, the original panel enlarged in the 19th century, the reverse with a paper collector’s label of Andrei Mikhailovich Postnikov, numbered 21 and 84, and also with a painted inscription against a white ground inscribed in Russian in stylised old Slavonic calligraphy Collection of Andrei Mikhailovich Postnikov № 41 Novgorod Painting XVth century

32 by 26.5cm, 12 3/5 by 10 2/5in.
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