ID 556910
Lot 229 | AN ICON OF ST NICHOLAS, NOVGOROD OR VOLOGDA, 16TH CENTURY, RENEWED IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
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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